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A researcher employed by the traffic department takes blood samples from 100 subjects who have been drinking variable amounts of alcohol. She then asks each of the participants to try and stand on one foot for as long as they possibly can. The blood alcohol level of the participants and length of time they can balance on one foot are then correlated. Which of the following results would you hypothesise as being the most likely outcome? {Ans: A negative correlation}A researcher hypothesizes that the drug treatment of hospitalised schizophrenic patients improves their mental alertness. He studies a random sample of 27 patients to see whether there is a relationship between the number of days of drug treatment and patients' scores on the Mental Alertness Test. Which is an appropriate null hypothesis for this research? {Ans: H0: ρ = 0}The probability of a Type I error is equal to - - - - -. {Ans: the p-value of the test statistic under the null hypothesis}A measurement that summarizes an aspect of a population is called a - - - - - while a measurement that describes the same aspect of a sample is called - - - -