Hypothesis testing is a formal procedure for investigating our ideas about the world using statistics. It is most often used by researchers to test predictions, called hypotheses. The first step in ...

In the early 20 th century, Guinness breweries in Dublin had a policy of hiring the best graduates from Oxford and Cambridge to improve their industrial processes. At the time, it was considered a ...

Students will conduct an experiment in order to determine the origin of a family artifact. Students will determine whether the results from an experiment successfully determined the origin of a family ...

Successful completion of this course demonstrate your achievement of the following learning outcomes for the MS-DS program: Define a composite hypothesis and the level of significance for a test with ...

Students will analyze information from a variety of sources in order to create a hypothesis about the origin of an interesting family artifact. Students will create alternative hypotheses based upon ...

In Hypothesis Testing 1, you were introduced to the ideas of hypothesis testing in the context of deciding whether a coin was fair or biased in favor of heads. In this section hypothesis testing ...

Business owners like to know how their decisions will impact their businesses. According to Harvard Business School Online, before making decisions, managers may explore the benefits of hypothesis ...

Despite their wide use in scientific journals such as The Journal of Wildlife Management, statistical hypothesis tests add very little value to the products of research. Indeed, they frequently ...