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Exercise 25

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Testing for Fibromyalgia. A patient named Diana was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, a long-term syndrome of body pain, and was prescribed anti-depressants. Being the skeptic that she is, Diana didn’t initially believe that anti-depressants would help her symptoms. However after a couple months of being on the medication she decides that the anti-depressants are working, because she feels like her symptoms are in fact getting better.

  1. Write the hypotheses in words for Diana’s skeptical position when she started taking the anti-depressants.

  2. What is a Type 1 Error in this context?

  3. What is a Type 2 Error in this context?

Diez, Barr & Çetinkaya-Rundel, OpenIntro Statistics, Foundations for inference, End-of-Chapter Exercises, Exercise 25

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Adapted from OpenIntro Statistics © 2019 David Diez, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel & Christopher D. Barr. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Source: OpenIntro Statistics. Imported at revision fee2509.