Lec. 19 – Hypothesis Testing: The Null and Types of Error
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Example of a statistical test?
Components of the theory about testing statistical hypotheses about parameters of population distributions:
Description of Null and Alternative Hypotheses
Null hypothesis
Alternative hypothesis
Consequences of testing
Choice of estimators of parameters and test statistics
How the test statistic, z, works in the t-test
Significance levels and rejection or critical regions
Consequences of changing
Types of Error and their Probabilities
Number of observations required for a test