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Table 4 Effect of level of significance in decision-making

From: Data analysis for sequential contingencies under uncertainty

\({I}_{{\alpha }_{N}}\epsilon \left[{I}_{{\alpha }_{L}},{I}_{{\alpha }_{U}}\right]\)

\({\alpha }_{N}={\alpha }_{L}+{\alpha }_{U}{I}_{{\alpha }_{N}}\)

\({Z}_{N}\epsilon \left[{Z}_{L},{Z}_{U}\right]\)

\({Z}_{CN}\epsilon \left[{Z}_{CL},{Z}_{CU}\right]\)

Decision about \({H}_{0}\)

[0, 0.5000]

\(0.001+0.002{I}_{{\alpha }_{N}}\)

\({Z}_{N}\epsilon \left[\mathrm{1.493,1.493}\right]\)

[3.29,3.09]

Do not reject \({H}_{0}\)

[0, 0.7400]

\(0.0026+0.01{I}_{{\alpha }_{N}}\)

\({Z}_{N}\epsilon \left[\mathrm{1.493,1.493}\right]\)

[3.00,2.58]

Do not reject \({H}_{0}\)

[0, 0.5614]

\(0.02+0.0456{I}_{{\alpha }_{N}}\)

\({Z}_{N}\epsilon \left[\mathrm{1.493,1.493}\right]\)

[2.33,2.00]

Do not reject \({H}_{0}\)

[0, 0.5000]

\(0.05+0.10{I}_{{\alpha }_{N}}\)

\({Z}_{N}\epsilon \left[\mathrm{1.493,1.493}\right]\)

[1.96,1.64]

Do not reject \({H}_{0}\)

[0, 0.3711]

\(0.20+0.318{I}_{{\alpha }_{N}}\)

\({Z}_{N}\epsilon \left[\mathrm{1.493,1.493}\right]\)

[1.28,1.00]

Reject \({H}_{0}\)