A commonly cited standard for one-way length (duration) of school bus rides for elementary school children is 30 minutes. a local government office in a rural area conducts a study to determine if elementary schoolers in their district have a longer average one-way commute time. if they determine that the average commute time of their students in their district is significantly higher than the commonly cited standard

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Isabelle Carson

31 October, 20:10

A commonly cited standard for one-way length (duration) of school bus rides for elementary school children is 30 minutes. a local government office in a rural area conducts a study to determine if elementary schoolers in their district have a longer average one-way commute time. if they determine that the average commute time of their students in their district is significantly higher than the commonly cited standard

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Tony Salazar · Answer 1

The type II error in this context: the local government decided that the data do not provide convincing evidence of an average commute time higher than 30 minutes, when the true average commute time is in fact higher than 30 minutes.

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Type II error is a statistical term referring to the non-rejection of a false null hypothesis; it describes the error that occurs when one fails to reject a null hypothesis that is actually false.