Activity 5.3: Problem of the Week (1 of 2): Vocabulary Check
Instructions
Answer the following questions in detail. You can use bullet points to describe a process or to differentiate items in each answer as necessary. Include the questions.
What are the two types of hypotheses used in a hypothesis test? How are they related?
Describe the two types of errors possible in a hypothesis test decision.
What are the two decisions that you can make from performing a hypothesis test?
Does failing to reject the null hypothesis mean that the null hypothesis is true? Explain.
Explain the difference between the z-test for mu using rejection region(s) and the z-test for mu using a P-value.
In hypothesis testing, does using the critical value method or the P-value method affect your conclusion? Explain.
Explain how to find critical values for a t-distribution.
Explain how to use a t-test to test a hypothesized mean mu when sigma is unknown. What assumptions are necessary?
What is a multinomial experiment?
What conditions are necessary to use the chi-square goodness-of-fit test?
