1. TESTING HYPOTHESES AND ASSESSING GOODNESS OF FIT
FIGURES FOR CHAPTER 9
TESTING HYPOTHESES AND
ASSESSING GOODNESS OF FIT
This chapter in the book includes:
9.1 Introduction
9.2 The Neyman-Pearson Paradigm
9.3 The Duality of Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis
Tests
9.4 Generalized Likelihood Ratio Tests
9.5 Likelihood Ratio Tests for the Multinomial Distribution
9.6 The Poisson Dispersion Test
9.7 Hanging Rootograms
9.8 Probability Plots
9.9 Tests for Normality
9.7 Concluding Remarks
9.8 Problems
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2. Figure 9.1
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3. Figure 9.2
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4. Figure 9.3 (a) Histogram, (b) hanging histogram, (c) hanging rootogram, and (d) hanging chi-gram for normal fit to serum potassium data.
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5. Figure 9.4 Uniform-uniform probability plot.
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6. Figure 9.5 Uniform-triangular probability plot.
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7. Figure 9.6 Normal probability plot of Michelson's data.
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8. Figure 9.7 Normal probability plot of 500 pseudorandom variables from a double exponential distribution.
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9. Figure 9.8 Normal probability plot of 500 pseudorandom variables from a gamma distribution with the shape parameter α = 5.
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10. Figure 9.9 Gamma probability plot of rainfall distribution.
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11. Figure 9.10 Normal probability plot of serum potassium data.
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