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DEVELOPING HYPOTHESIS AND RESEARCH QUESTIONS

“A hypothesis is a conjectural statement of the relation between two or more variables”. (Kerlinger, 1956) “Hypothesis is a formal statement that presents the expected relationship between an independent and dependent variable.”(Creswell, 1994) “A research question is essentially a hypothesis asked in the form of a question.”

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Null hypothesis vs. alternative hypothesis

• A hypothesis is called simple if it completely specify the probability distribution and otherwise com-posite. Example 1 Suppose that we observe data y =(y1,···,yn). If we are willing to assume that the data set is a random sample from N (θ,10) where θ ∈{1,2}. We want to check which value of θ is consistent with data.

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Chapter 7: Hypothesis Testing - Solutions

Chapter 7: Hypothesis Testing - Solutions 7.1 Introduction to Hypothesis Testing The problem with applying the techniques learned in Chapter 5 is that typically, the popula-tion mean ( ) and standard deviation (˙) are not known. In chapter 7, we will be looking at the situation when a simple random sample is taken from a large population with ...

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Hypothesis Testing with z Tests - University of Michigan

will reject the null hypothesis (cutoffs) p levels (α): Probabilities used to determine the critical value 5. Calculate test statistic (e.g., z statistic) 6. Make a decision Statistically Significant: Instructs us to reject the null hypothesis because the pattern in the data differs from whldbhlhat we would expect by chance alone.

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Hypothesis Testing with t Tests - University of Michigan

Hypothesis Tests: SingleSingle--Sample Sample tTests yHypothesis test in which we compare data from one sample to a population for which we know the mean but not the standard deviation. yDegrees of Freedom: The number of scores that are free to vary when estimating a population parameter from a sample

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Table of Standard Normal Probabilities for Negative Z-scores

Table of Standard Normal Probabilities for Negative Z-scores z 0.00 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.04 0.05 0.06 0.07 0.08 0.09 -3.4 0.0003 0.0003 0.0003 0.0003 0.0003 0.0003 0.0003 ...