6: Hypothesis Testing Flashcards
The probability of rejecting a false null hypothesis
Power of the test
The power of a test=
= 1- P(Type II error)
Rejecting the null hypothesis when it is true
Type I error
Failing to reject the null hypothesis when it is false
Type II error
The probability of making a type I error:
The significance level (Alpha)
Significance level of 5% means:
There is a 5% chance of rejecting a true null hypothesis
The smallest level of significance at which the hypothesis can be rejected:
P-value:
A p-value of 0.02% means that the smallest significance level at which the hypothesis can be rejected is 0.0002
Test statistic to test that a population variance is equal to a chosen value:
Chi-square statistic
Test statistic to test that two variance are equal:
F-statistic
Variance B/ variance A