Hypothesis Testing

Sunday, 18 August 2019

5:30 PM

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7. Inferences concerning a mean
7.8 Tests of Hypotheses
Procedures in hypothesis testing
O State the null and alternative hypotheses: Ho and Ha
O Determine the rejection criterion
O Compute the appropriate test statistic and determine its
distribution
O Calculate the p-value using the test statistics computed
O Conclusion: reject/do not reject Ho, relate back to the research
question
MATH2099/2859 (Statistics)
Dr Jia Deng
Term 2,
2019
- Lecture 7
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t-test

is rejected in favour of if the observed

p-value

If - Reject

If - Do no reject

One-sided Tests

Instead of using we use

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