Hypothesis Testing
Assignment 4 Michael Lewis November 14, 2017 Part 1 Introduction: The objective of this assignment is to learn how to use hypothesis testing and apply it to real world examples. Hypothesis testing is a statistical method to make larger conclusions about a population from a sample. It becomes most useful when it is unrealistic to retrieve data from an entire population, like from residents of San Francisco or farms in Iowa. Instead, by using hypothesis testing, you can make generalizations about the population from a more doable, sample population. We break it down into six steps: 1. State the null hypothesis 2. State the alternative hypothesis 3. Choose a statistical test 4. Choose the level of significance 5. Calculate the statistic 6. Make a...