Chapter 8 - Hypothesis Testing
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hypothesis
A _____________ is a claim or statement about a property of a population
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hypothesis test
A ______________ (or test of significance) is a procedure for testing a claim about a property of a population
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null hypothesis
The _____________ (denoted by H subscript 0) is a statement that the value of a population parameter is equal to some claimed value
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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:
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Type I error
_____________: the mistake of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is actually true, equal to alpha
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Type II error
________________: the mistake of failing to reject the null hypothesis when it is actually false, equal to beta
