The Basic Practice of Statistics 7th Edition

Published by W. H. Freeman
ISBN 10: 146414253X
ISBN 13: 978-1-46414-253-6

Chapter 18 - Inference in Practice - Apply Your Knowledge - Page 431: 18.18b

Answer

Make the type II error smaller.

Work Step by Step

Type II error is worse, because people with a medical problem will not be examined by a doctor. In case of a type I error patients will be examined by a doctor, who will probably say that there is no medical problem. Thus we should make the type II error smaller.
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