Applied Statistics and Probability for Engineers, 6th Edition

Tests of Hypotheses for a Single Sample

Chapter Outline

9-1 Hypothesis Testing

9-1.1 Statistical Hypotheses

9-1.2 Tests of Statistical Hypotheses

9-1.3 One-Sided and Two-Sided Hypotheses

9-1.4 P-Values in Hypothesis Tests

9-1.5 Connection between Hypothesis Tests and Confidence Intervals

9-1.6 General Procedure for Hypothesis Tests

9-2 Tests on the Mean of a Normal Distribution, Variance Known

9-2.1 Hypothesis Tests on the Mean

9-2.2 Type II Error and Choice of Sample Size

9-2.3 Large-Sample Test

9-3 Tests on the Mean of a Normal Distribution, Variance Unknown

9-3.1 Hypothesis Tests on the Mean

9-3.2 Type II Error and Choice of Sample Size

9-4 Tests on the Variance and Standard Deviation of a Normal Distribution

9-4.1 Hypothesis Tests on the Variance

9-4.2 Type II Error and Choice of Sample Size

9-5 Tests on a Population Proportion

9-5.1 Large-Sample Tests on a Proportion

9-5.2 Type II Error and Choice of Sample Size

9-6 Summary Table of Inference Procedures for a Single Sample

9-7 Testing for Goodness of Fit

9-8 Contingency Table Tests

9-9 Nonparametric Procedures

9-9.1 The Sign Test

9-9.2 The Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test

9-9.3 Comparison to the t-test

9-10 Equivalence Testing

9-11 Combining P-Values

INTRODUCTION

In the previous two chapters, we showed how a parameter of a population ...