STAT 3025Q Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Normal Distribution, Binomial Distribution, Type I And Type Ii Errors
18 Dec 2017
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Ch 8: tests of hypotheses based on a single sample. Statistical hypothesis - claim either about the value of a single parameter (population characteristic pr characteristic of a probability distribution), about the values of several parameters, or about the form of an entire probability distribution. There are two contradictory hypotheses under consideration and using sample information, goal is to decide which one is correct. ) - claim that is initially assumed to be true. H0 h0 is rejected in favor of the is false. Test of hypotheses - method for using sample data to decide where or not the. Test procedure - rule, based on sample data, for deciding whether ot not to reject h0. Test statistic - function of the sample data on which the decision (reject or do not. Rejection region - set of all test statistic values for which.
