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 WHAT IS THIS HYPOTHESIS???? • In simple words it means a mere assumption or supposition to be proved of disproved. • But‚ for a researcher it is a formal question that he intends to resolve. • Example: I assume that 1) under stress and anxiety a person goes into depression. 2) It leads to aggressive behaviour. Eg. : Students who get better counselling in a university will show a greater increase in creativity than students who were not counselled. • So‚ the hypothesis
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T-test A t-test is a hypothesis test in which the test statistic follows a Student’s t-distribution under the null hypothesis. There are several different test statistics that fall into the category of a t-test. One-Sample t-test x 0 s n df n 1 t Independent Two-Sample t-test t x1 x2 2 sx1x2 n 1 2 2 sx1 sx2 2 df 2n 2 sx1x2 Unequal Sample Size Two-Sample t-test t x1 x2 1 1 sx1x2 n1 n2 sx1x2 n1 1 sx2 n2
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Testing statistical significance is an excellent way to identify probably relevance between a total data set mean/sigma and a smaller sample data set mean/sigma‚ otherwise known as a population mean/sigma and sample data set mean/sigma. This classification of testing is also very useful in proving probable relevance between data samples. Although testing statistical significance is not a 100% fool proof‚ if testing to the 95% probability on two data sets the statistical probability is .25% chance
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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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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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Precipitation Hypothesis Testing Paper Learning Team One Research and Evaluation II – RES 342 University of Phoenix Precipitation Hypothesis Testing Learning team one will test if there is more precipitation in the three months of the spring in 2006 or is it greater than or equal to the three months in the winter in Rockville‚ which is located in Montgomery County‚ Maryland. We will look at the validity of the local average precipitation (rainfall) during the months of December
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Hypothesis Testing Paper Previously a group of friends compared the average temperature for the 15 days in each of the 2004 and 2005 Christmas holiday pubic school vacations to determine which holiday was colder. Secondary research retrieved from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ’s (NOAA) National Weather Service website provided climatic data on a daily basis for each day of the periods under investigation. Daily average temperature for each of the 15-day holiday vacation
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STEPS IN STATISTICAL INVESTIGATION 1. DEFINING THE PROBLEM The main goal of the project we are involved in is to get some information about how people from different countries (as Spain and Sweden) think about one important problem in our current society: the Environment. Pupils and teachers from both countries created the questions for the surveys in order to get some important aspects and point of views about this topic. Then‚ pupils carried out surveys and now‚ it is the moment to analyze and
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Hypothesis Testing Paper Homelessness is an ever growing problem that the numbers seem to increase in severity in the larger cities. Chicago‚ Illinois has numbers that exceed more than 93‚000 individuals that are homeless and out of those there is close to 20‚000 that also suffer with a mental illness. In addressing the link between mental illness and homelessness it is clear that the numbers are large due to lack of medical care and the de-institutionalization from the 1960’s. In an attempt to
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