You Are Considering Testing a New Drug That Is Supposed

Multiple Choice

You are considering testing a new drug that is supposed to facilitate learning in mentally retarded children. Because there is relatively little known about the drug, you plan to use a nondirectional alternative hypothesis. Since your resources are limited, you can test only 15 subjects. The subjects will be run in a repeated measures design and the data will be analyzed with the sign test, using a = 0.05_{2 tail}. What is the probability of a Type II error?

A) 0.7032
B) 0.7031
C) 0.9824
D) 0.9648