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Study Notes
Introduction to Hypothesis Testing
- Hypothesis testing is a statistical technique used to determine which of two competing claims about a parameter is correct.
- It involves testing a null hypothesis against an alternative hypothesis to make a decision.
- Hypothesis testing is used in engineering to solve real-world problems, such as designing an air crew escape system.
Hypothesis Testing vs. Confidence Intervals
- Hypothesis testing and confidence interval estimation are two fundamental methods used in statistical inference.
- There is a close connection between hypothesis testing and confidence intervals.
Types of Hypotheses
- A statistical hypothesis is a statement about the parameters of one or more populations.
Importance of Hypothesis Testing
- Hypothesis testing is useful in many types of decision-making problems, tests, or experiments in the engineering world.
- It provides a way to formulate and answer questions about parameters of populations.
Learning Objectives
- Structure engineering decision-making problems as hypothesis tests
- Test hypotheses on the mean of a normal distribution using Z-tests or t-tests
- Test hypotheses on the variance or standard deviation of a normal distribution
- Test hypotheses on a population proportion
- Use the P-value approach for making decisions in hypothesis tests
- Compute power and type II error probability, and make sample size selection decisions for tests on means, variances, and proportions
- Explain and use the relationship between confidence intervals and hypothesis tests
- Use the chi-square goodness-of-fit test to check distributional assumptions
- Use contingency table tests
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This quiz covers tests of hypotheses for a single sample, including estimating population parameter and competing claims about the value of a parameter.
