Course: Statistics

5 Hypothesis testing, part 1

(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, normal distribution, Student t distribution, independent sample, matched sample, hypothesis test about a population mean, hypothesis test about the difference between means of two populations, paired two sample for means

Due to: Monday, 23 November 2009, 6 p.m.