Hypothesis Testing Flashcards

1
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What is a test statistic?

A

The result of the experiment

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What is a critical region?

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A region of the probability distribution which, if the test statistic falls within it, would cause you to reject the null hypothesis

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3
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What is a critical value?

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The first value to fall inside of the critical region

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4
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What is the actual significance level?

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The probability of incorrectly rejecting the null hypothesis

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