August 2009
Beginner
384 pages
8h 9m
English
book
Even You Can Learn Statistics: A Guide for Everyone Who Has Ever Been Afraid of Statistics, Second Edition
by David M. Levine, David F. Stephan
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Chapter 7. Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing
Science progresses by first stating tentative explanations, or hypotheses, about natural phenomena and then by proving (or disproving) those hypotheses through investigation and testing. Statisticians have adapted this scientific method by developing an inferential method called hypothesis testing that evaluates a claim made about the value of a population parameter by using a sample statistic. In this chapter, you learn the basic concepts and principles of hypothesis testing and the statistical ...