Suppose you have observations from six different regions within your state and you wish to do hypothesis tests to compare the mean income across groups. Using the Bonferroni Correction, what
Significance level should you use for each hypothesis test if you want an overall significance of
0)10? Round to the nearest thousandth.
A) 0.050
B) 0.033
C) 0.007
D) None of these

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The Bonferroni Correction divides the overall significance level by the number of comparisons. With six regions, there are 15 pairwise comparisons (6 choose 2), so 0.10/15 = 0.00667, which rounds to 0.007.

Suppose You Have Observations from Six Different Regions Within Your