Hypothesis Testing: Two-Sample Case for the Mean Many cases in the social sciences involve a hypothesis about the difference between two groups (i.e. men and women‚ control and experiment). We analyze statistics from two samples‚ and the hypothesis and confidence interval would deal with the difference between two population means. The following factors are important in hypothesis testing: 1. probability theory 2. the sampling distribution of the statistic 3. the errors inherent
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Efficient Market Hypothesis THE CONTRASTING EVIDENCE OF THE VALIDITY OF THE EFFICIENT MARKET HYPOTHESIS There is apparently plenty of divergence relating to the validity of efficient market hypothesis (EMH)‚ some academics or financial gurus support efficient market hypothesis while there are some who assert that efficient market hypothesis and random walk theory are flawed concepts in the post-financial crisis era. Beginning with the definition of efficient market hypothesis‚ it states that
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A REVIEW OF STUDIES CONDUCTED ON THE WEAK FORM OF THE EFFICIENT MARKET HYPOTHESIS ON EMERGING CAPITAL MARKETS Surabhi Kothiyal (2009B3A8360P) Vishnukaant Pitty (2009A4PS340P) 1 CONTENTS PAGE NO. 1. Introduction 3 2. On Emerging Markets … 5 3. Empirical Methods 8 3.1. Non-Parametric Tests 8 3.1.1. Kolmogrov Smirnov Goodness of Fit Test 9 3.1.2. Runs Test 9 3.2. Parametric Tests 10 3.2.1. Auto-Correlation Test 10 3.2.2. ADF (Augmented
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Business Statistics‚ 9e (Groebner/Shannon/Fry) Chapter 10 Estimation and Hypothesis Testing for Two Population Parameters 1) The Cranston Hardware Company is interested in estimating the difference in the mean purchase for men customers versus women customers. It wishes to estimate this difference using a 95 percent confidence level. If the sample size is n = 10 from each population‚ the samples are independent‚ and sample standard deviations are used‚ and the variances are assumed equal‚ then
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The word ‘Hypothesis is derived from a Greek word‚ which means ‘to suppose’. It is usually considered as the principal instrument in research. For a researcher it is a formal question that he or she intends to resolve. In this way a hypothesis may be defined as a proposition or a supposition. The main function of hypothesis is to guide the collection and processing of materials and direct the research. Hypothesis is a tentative conclusion. It is facts based theory. A research scholar will analyze
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1. First enter the Real estate data (text book data set 1) into SPSS and then select a sample of size‚ n = last two digits of your ID and answer the exercises. I. Select an appropriate class interval and organize the “Selling price” into a frequency distribution. II. Compute the Mean‚ Median‚ Mode‚ Standard Deviation‚ Variance‚ Quartiles‚ 9th Decile‚ 10th Percentile and Range of “Selling price” from the raw data of your sample and interpret. III. Develop a histogram (Using question “1”) for
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TAMILNADU A.KASIRAJAN(Asst.Prof) WITH REFERANCE TO PERMANENT INCOME Department of Economics HYPOTHESIS R.K.M.VivekanandaCollege‚ Mylapore‚Chennai600004. _______________________________________________________________________________ Introduction The central idea of the permanent income hypothesis‚ proposed by Milton Friedman in 1957‚ is that people base consumption on what they consider their “normal income”. In doing this‚ they
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Efficient Market Hypothesis And Behavioral Finance – Is A Compromise In Sight? By Nikolai Chuvakhin Legend has it that once upon the time two economists were walking together when one of them saw something that struck his mind. “Look‚” he exclaimed‚ “here’s a great research topic!” “Nonsense‚” the other one said‚ “If it were‚ someone would have written a paper on it by now.” For a long time this attitude governed the view of economists toward the stock market. Economists simply believed that
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Practice with p-values Work through these problems with your computer partner and/or instructor. Answers follow the problem set. 1. Suppose we’ve done the computation of the Z test statistic. For each of the following situations determine the p-value that goes along with Z. a. Z = 2.12‚ two-sided test b. Z = 4.55‚ two-sided test c. Z = -1.40‚ lower-tail test 2. Suppose Z = 1.92.Which has a smaller p-value‚ the upper-tail test or the two-sided test? From this‚ is it more likely to have a
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couple of decades there has been a debate going whether or not there are behavioral aspects in finance. This means that financial markets are subject to different investors’ sentiments and that markets are not efficient‚ i.e. the efficient market hypothesis (EMH) does not hold. The supporters of EMH argue that all available information is included in the stock prices‚ which means that any long-term abnormal returns earned are a matter of chance. On the other side‚ the supporters of behavioral finance
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