Mth/231 Hypothesis Testing Paper

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University of Phoenix Material Hypothesis Testing and Correlation Worksheet Answer the following questions. For questions requiring material from Statdisk, turn labels on, take a screen capture—CTRL + Print Screen on most Microsoft® Windows-based computers—and paste the image into the worksheet. Crop the image as appropriate. For questions 1–4, respond in a paragraph of no more than 100 words for each question. What is a hypothesis? What is a hypothesis test? (0.5 points) A hypothesis is a statement of a relationship between two or more variables." A statistical hypothesis is simply a particular kind of hypothesis. 1. A statistical hypothesis is either a statement about the value of a population parameter (e.g., mean, median, mode, variance, standard deviation, proportion, total), or a statement about the kind of probability distribution that a certain variable obeys.A statistical hypothesis test is a method of making decisions using data, whether from a controlled experiment or an observational study (not controlled). In statistics, a result is called statistically significant if it has been predicted as unlikely to have occurred by chance alone, according to a pre-determined threshold probability, the significance level. 2. What is a null hypothesis? What is an alternative hypothesis? (0.5 points) The null hypothesis can never be proven. Data, such as the results of an observation or experiment, can only reject or fail to reject a null hypothesis. The alternative hypothesis is the hypothesis that sample observations are influenced by some non-random cause. 3. What is a test statistic? (0.5 points) A statistic is a single measure of some attribute of a sample. It is calculated by applying a function (statistical algorithm) to the values of the items of the sample, which are known together as a set of data. 4. What are significance

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