Chapter 11 Hypothesis Testing

Learning Objectives

  1. Explain what is meant by the terms null and alternative hypotheses, simple and composite hypotheses, type I and type II errors, test statistic, likelihood ratio, critical region, level of significance, probability-value and power of a test.
  2. Apply basic tests for the one-sample and two-sample situations involving the normal, binomial and Poisson distributions, and apply basic tests for paired data.
  3. Apply the permutation approach to non-parametric hypothesis tests.

Theory

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