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Section 8.1
Vocabulary Terms associated with section 8.1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Significance Test | is a formal procedure for comparing observed data with a claim (also called a hypothesis) whose truth we want to assess. |
| Null Hypothesis | The claim we weigh evidence against in a statistical test is called... |
| Alternative Hypothesis | The claim about the population that we are trying to find evidence for is... |
| Parameter | The null and alternative are always in terms of the ...... |
| Two Sided | A ______hypothesis because we are looking at two directions, greater than and less than.. |
| One sided | A _______hypothesis because we are only looking at one direction, greater than or less than. |
| p value | The probability that measures the strength of the evidence against a null hypothesis. |
| Type one error | We Reject the null when the null is true. |
| Type two error | We fail to reject the null when the null is false (alternative is true) |