Formulae for Hypothesis Testing

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Formulae
for
Hypothesis
Testing



 


Decision rule

There are several ways to phrase
the decision rule and they all have the same meaning.

 

Reject the
null if:

1)      |test statistic| > |critical value|

2)      The absolute
value of the test statistic
is bigger than the absolute
critical value

3)      p-value < some significance level

most often 0.05

 

Usually, you will be using the p-value
to make a decision
.