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Old June 28th, 2009, 07:40 PM
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You cannot use a normal approximation here.
The sample is small and the underlying distribution is binomial.
So drop the z's.

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Originally Posted by larz View Post
If I make my critical region X \le 1, how can I figure out the \alpha? Thank you

I DID that!
X=0 or X=1 IS X \le 1.
You need to learn what alpha is.
It's the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis assuming that the null is correct.
It's the probability of that error.

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