Chapter 8 - Hypothesis Testing

hypothesis

hypothesis

A _____________ is a claim or statement about a property of a population

hypothesis test

A ______________ (or test of significance) is a procedure for testing a claim about a property of a population

null hypothesis

The _____________ (denoted by H subscript 0) is a statement that the value of a population parameter is equal to some claimed value

alternative hypothesis

The _________ (denoted by H subscript a) is a statement that the parameter has a value that somehow differs from the null hypothesis. For the methods of this chapter, the symbolic form of the alternative hypothesis must use one of these symbols: <, >, not equal to

Type I error

_____________: the mistake of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is actually true, equal to alpha

Type II error

________________: the mistake of failing to reject the null hypothesis when it is actually false, equal to beta