Course: Statistics

6 Hypothesis testing, part 2

(inferential statistics)

Key words:
hypothesis, null hypothesis, alternate hypothesis, decision (do not reject the null hypothesis; reject the null hypothesis), type I error, type II error, one-tailed test (left-tailed test; right-tailed test), two-tailed test, test statistic, critical value, significance level, alpha, p-value, hypothesis test about a population variance, hypothesis test about the variances of two populations, two sample assuming equal variances, two sample assuming unequal variances

Due to: Monday, 30 November 2009, 6 p.m.

Note:
You can find the materials "Summary to Hypothesis testing (inferential statistics)" and "Interesting web pages related to Hypothesis testing (inferential statistics)" in the previous topic "Hypothesis testing - part 1 (inferential statistics)".