Significance level of a drug efficacy test on 20 patients
Question
A drugmaker says its treatment improves focus in of patients with attention deficit disorder. A regulator suspects this is too high, gives the drug to patients, and counts the number who respond, testing against and rejecting when . What is the significance level ?
Short answer
About . The significance level is the chance of landing in the rejection region when holds: for , which is approximately .
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- Maximum Likelihood Estimation: Score and Log-Likelihood
- The Hypothesis Testing Framework
- Pivotal Quantities and Exact Confidence Intervals
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