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LECTURE 19 THURSDAY, 14 April STA 291 Spring

Administrative Notes 11 Hypothesis Testing – 11.1 Concepts of Hypothesis Testing – 11.2 Test for the Population Mean Online homework due this Sat Suggested Reading – Study Tools or Textbook Chapter 11.2 Suggested problems from the textbook: 11.7, 11.8, 11.9, 11.13, 11.14,

Review: 11.1 Significance Tests A significance test is used to find evidence against a hypothesis The sampling distribution helps quantify the evidence (“p-value”) Enough evidence against the hypothesis: Reject the hypothesis. Not enough evidence: No conclusion. 3

Elements of a Significance Test Assumptions – Type of data, population distribution, sample size Hypotheses – Null and alternative hypothesis Test Statistic – Compares point estimate to parameter value under the null hypothesis P-value – Uses sampling distribution to quantify evidence against null hypothesis – Small P is more contradictory Conclusion – Report P-value – Make formal rejection decision (optional) 4

p-Value How unusual is the observed test statistic when the null hypothesis is assumed true? The p-value is the probability, assuming that H 0 is true, that the test statistic takes values at least as contradictory to H 0 as the value actually observed The smaller the p-value, the more strongly the data contradict H 0 5

Decisions and Types of Errors in Tests of Hypotheses Terminology: –  -level (significance level) is a number such that one rejects the null hypothesis if the p-value is less than or equal to it. – Often,  =0.05 – Choice of the  -level reflects how cautious the researcher wants to be (“acceptable risk”) – Significance level  needs to be chosen before analyzing the data 6

Decisions and Types of Errors in Tests of Hypotheses More Terminology: – The rejection region is a range of values such that if the test statistic falls into that range, we decide to reject the null hypothesis in favor of the alternative hypothesis 7

Type I and Type II Errors Type I Error: The null hypothesis is rejected, even though it is true. Type II Error: The null hypothesis is not rejected, even though it is false. 8

Type I and Type II Errors 9

Terminology: –  = Probability of a Type I error –  = Probability of a Type II error – Power = 1 – Probability of a Type II error The smaller the probability of Type I error, the larger the probability of Type II error and the smaller the power If you ask for very strong evidence to reject the null hypothesis, it is more likely that you fail to detect a real difference 10

Type I and Type II Errors In practice,  is specified, and the probability of Type II error could be calculated, but the calculations are usually difficult How to choose  ? If the consequences of a Type I error are very serious, then  should be small. For example, you want to find evidence that someone is guilty of a crime In exploratory research, often a larger probability of Type I error is acceptable If the sample size increases, both error probabilities decrease 11

11.2 Significance Test for a Mean Example The mean score for all high school seniors taking a college entrance exam equals 500. A study is conducted to see whether a different mean applies to those students born in a foreign country. For a random sample of 100 of such students, the mean and standard deviation on this exam equal 508 and 100. Q: Is the mean significantly different from 500 for international students? 12

Significance Test for a Mean Assumptions What type of data? – Quantitative What is the population distribution? – No special assumptions. The test refers to the population mean of the quantitative variable. Which sampling method has been used? – Random sampling What is the sample size? – Minimum sample size of n=30 to use Central Limit Theorem with estimated standard deviation 13

Significance Test for a Mean Hypotheses The null hypothesis has the form H 0 :  =  0, where  0 is an a priori (before taking the sample) specified number like 0 or 5.3 The most common alternative hypothesis is H 1 :    0 This is called a two-sided hypothesis, since it includes values falling above and below the null hypothesis 14

Significance Test for a Mean Test Statistic The hypothesis is about the population mean So, a natural test statistic would be the sample mean The sample mean has, for sample size of at least n=25, an approximately normal sampling distribution The parameters of the sampling distribution are, under the null hypothesis, – Mean =  0 (that is, the sampling distribution is centered around the hypothesized mean) – Standard error =, estimated by 15

Significance Test for a Mean Test Statistic Then, the z-score has a standard normal distribution The z-score measures how many estimated standard errors the sample mean falls from the hypothesized population mean The farther the sample mean falls from  0, the larger the absolute value of the z test statistic, and the stronger the evidence against the null hypothesis 16

p-Value The p-value has the advantage that different test results from different tests can be compared: The p- value is always a number between 0 and 1 The p-value can be obtained from Table B3: It is the probability that a standard normal distribution takes values more extreme than the observed z score The smaller the p-value is, the stronger the evidence against the null hypothesis and in favor of the alternative hypothesis Round p-value to two or three significant digits 17

Example The mean score for all high school seniors taking a college entrance exam equals 500. A study is conducted to see whether a different mean applies to those students born in a foreign country. For a random sample of 100 of such students, the mean and standard deviation on this exam equal 508 and Set up hypotheses for a significance test. 2. Compute the test statistic. 3. Report the P-value, and interpret. 4. Can you conclude that the population mean for students born in a foreign country equals 500? Why or why not? 5. Make a decision about H 0, using  =

One-Sided Tests of Hypotheses Recall: The research hypothesis is usually the alternative hypothesis This is the hypothesis that we want to prove by rejecting the null hypothesis Assume that we want to prove that is larger than a particular number  0 Then, we need a one-sided test with hypotheses: H 0 :  =  0 vs. H 1 :  >  0 19

One-Sided Alternative Example Example: Usually, Americans eat 2.5 pounds of turkey on Thanksgiving day. You want to prove that this year, that figure is too high—that Americans are cutting back. You sample n = 40 Americans, asking how much they eat. Null hypothesis: H 0 :  =  Alternative hypothesis: H 1 :  <

Two-Sided versus One-Sided Two-sided tests are more common Look for formulations like – “test whether the mean has changed” – “test whether the mean has increased” – “test whether the mean is the same” – “test whether the mean has decreased” 21

Summary 22

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