Release date: 27 April 2014 Submission date: 9 May 2014 TUTORIAL ON HYPOTHESIS TESTING (1) Basic Concept 1. State the null and alternative hypothesis for each conjecture : a. A researcher thinks that if expectant mothers use vitamin pills‚ the birth weight of the babies will increase. The average birth weight of the population is 3.0kg. b. An engineer hypothesizes that the mean number of defects can be decreased in a manufacturing process of compact disks by using robots instead of humans
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Hypothesis Testing Paper Team A PSY/315 July 7‚ 2014 Instructor: Regina Pendergrass Inside statistics‚ it has to be understood what hypothesis testing is to find and verify research to be studied. Hypothesis testing is a form of research that is used to show how a certain issue will end or how the researcher(s) think the issue will end in the environment that it is situated. The testing will show that even though an answer may form‚ it does not prove the answer is correct secondary to the
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CHAPTER 8 Introduction to Hypothesis Testing 8.1 Inferential Statistics and Hypothesis Testing LEARNING OBJECTIVES 8.2 Four Steps to Hypothesis Testing After reading this chapter‚ you should be able to: 8.3 Hypothesis Testing and Sampling Distributions 8.4 Making a Decision: Types of Error 8.5 Testing a Research Hypothesis: Examples Using the z Test 8.6 Research in Focus: Directional Versus Nondirectional Tests 8.7 Measuring the Size
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A hypothesis is a claim Population mean The mean monthly cell phone bill in this city is μ = $42 Population proportion Example: The proportion of adults in this city with cell phones is π = 0.68 States the claim or assertion to be tested Is always about a population parameter‚ not about a sample statistic Is the opposite of the null hypothesis e.g.‚ The average diameter of a manufactured bolt is not equal to 30mm ( H1: μ ≠ 30 ) Challenges the status quo Alternative never contains
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“Accept” the Null Hypothesis by Keith M. Bower‚ M.S. and James A. Colton‚ M.S. Reprinted with permission from the American Society for Quality When performing statistical hypothesis tests such as a one-sample t-test or the AndersonDarling test for normality‚ an investigator will either reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis‚ based upon sampled data. Frequently‚ results in Six Sigma projects contain the verbiage “accept the null hypothesis‚” which implies that the null hypothesis has been proven
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Take Home Test 2 1. A. Null Hypothesis: There are no relations or associations among the groups’ mean scores. Alternate Hypothesis: There is a relation or association among the student’s grade point averages and “if they rather prefer to stay at home than go out with friends”. Correlations | | Grade Point Average | I would rather stay at home and read than go out with my friends | Grade Point Average | Pearson Correlation | 1 | .233 | | Sig. (2-tailed) | | .120 | | Sum of Squares
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Hypothesis Testing: Alzheimer ’s Disease Natalie Sullivan PSY/315 August 8‚ 2011 Deborah Suzzane Ph.D. Hypothesis Testing: Alzheimer ’s Disease One in eight American’s over age 65 are diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. This number continues to grow as the population increases. The number of people affected by Alzheimer’s is alarming. The Alzheimer’s Association (2011) estimates that 5.4 million Americans of all ages suffer from this disease. Team A will attempt to form a hypothesis stating
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A hypothesis is a speculation or theory based off of insufficient evidence which can later be tested to be proven true or false. An example of a hypothesis would be testing if one type of drug performed better to prevent seizures than the other. A Null hypothesis is a hypothesis that says there is no statistical significance between variables in a given hypothesis. An example of a null hypothesis would be there is no statistical relationship between which type of drug used and the amount of prevented
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RESEARCH METHODOLOGY LESSON 20: PRINCIPLE OF HYPOTHESIS TESTING So far we have talked about estimating a confidence interval along with the probability (the confidence level) that the true population statistic lies within this interval under repeated sampling. We now examine the principles of statistical inference to hypotheses testing. By the end of this chapter you should be able to • Understand what is hypothesis testing • Examine issues relating to the determination of level of How is this
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