QUESTION
One of the differences between the use of a one-sample t-test and z-test is the population standard deviation, the value of N, the population mean, and whether the data come from the same people.
QUESTION 2
Given Xi = 25, Ni = 5; Xz = 19, Nz = 5, Sx1-Xz = 2.5, a = 0.05, 2 tail: Our conclusion would be:
since df = 9, reject the null:
since df - 8, reject the null
since df = 10, retain the null
since df = 8, retain the null
QUESTION 3
Setting the alpha level at 0.001 instead of the usual 0.05 increases the likelihood of Type II Error, having a small n, and rejecting the Null Hypothesis Type Error.