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given the following null hypothesis, give a n example of a type II error

Ho: there is no difference in the level of understanding of this chapter between students who have previously taken a statistics course and students who have not previously taken a statistics course.

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Solution

Type-II error is the error which accpets the null hypothesis which is false actually. So here H_0 is there is no difference in the level of significance of this chapter between students who have previously taken a course in stat and students who did not.

Type-II error: Accpet the null hypothesis. i.e. accept that there is no significant difference between two groups while those are actually significantly different.