Hypothesis Testing Flashcards
1
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What is a Hypothesis Test?
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A test used to determine whether a statistic/assumption is right or not
2
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What is a Null Hypothesis?
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The Hypothesis you assume is right
3
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What is an Alternate Hypothesis
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The Hypothesis that proves/disproves your assumption
4
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What is a One-Tailed Test?
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A test where they want to prove that P<x>x</x>
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What is a Two-Tailed Test
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A Hypothesis test to question if there’s a change at either end of the data. Question if P<x>x. Written as P≠x</x>
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What is a Critical Value?
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The first value inside the critical region. The border that determines what’s inside and what isn’t
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What is a Critical Region?
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The region where you would reject the null hypothesis
