- Notice the effect on power of changing the true mean to 60. Look at the
distributions to find the area that represents power.
- Change the sample size and notice its effect on the cutoff point and on
power.
- Change the population standard deviation (sd) and notice its effect on
the cutoff point and on
power.
- Compare the power of one-tailed and two-tailed tests. What is the power
for each when the true mean is 55. What about 45? (The one-tailed tests are
based on the expectation that the population mean is > 50.)
- Set the value of the true mean to 50. Does power make sense in this situation?
- Determine the effect of the significance level on the red and blue distributions.
On what (in addition to power) does it have its effect?