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More about Hypothesis Testing

Published: Mar 17th, 2014

Presentation with Transcript Part A (5:34) Slides 1-6 Introduction Effect of Sample Size on Hypothesis Testing Part B (3:11) Slides 7 – 11 Statistical Significance vs. Practical Importance Part C […]

Errors and Power

Published: Mar 17th, 2014

Presentation with Transcript Video – Part 1 (7:23) Slides 1-11: Type I and Type II Error Video – Part 2 (3:14) Slides 12-13: More about Errors Video – Part 3 […]

Did I Get This – Hypothesis Tests for Proportions (Extra Practice)

Published: Oct 23rd, 2013

After reading an article using research done by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) based in France, a statistics student decided to conduct his own study to see […]

Did I Get This – Connection between Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Tests

Published: Oct 22nd, 2013

The UCLA Internet Report (February 2003) estimated that roughly 8.7% of Internet users are extremely concerned about credit card fraud when buying online. A study was designed in order to […]

Learn by Doing – Statistical vs. Practical Significance

Learn by Doing – Statistical vs. Practical Significance

Published: Oct 22nd, 2013

The purpose of this activity is to give you guided practice exploring the effect of sample size on the significance of sample results, and help you get a better sense […]

Learn by Doing – Interpreting Non-significant Results

Published: Oct 22nd, 2013

Suppose that only 40% of the U.S. public supported the general direction of the previous U.S. administration’s policies. To gauge whether the nationwide proportion, p, of support for the current administration is […]

Learn by Doing – Hypothesis Tests and Confidence Intervals

Published: Mar 18th, 2013

The purpose of this activity is to give you hands-on practice in following up a test for the population proportion p in which Ho has been rejected with a confidence interval, and […]

More about Hypothesis Testing

More about Hypothesis Testing

Published: Mar 18th, 2013

1. The Effect of Sample Size on Hypothesis Testing 2. Statistical significance vs. practical importance. 3. Hypothesis Testing and Confidence Intervals Let’s summarize CO-1: Describe the roles biostatistics serves in the […]

Errors and Power

Errors and Power

Published: Mar 8th, 2013

Type I and Type II Errors in Hypothesis Tests Reasons for a Type I Error in Practice Reasons for a Type II Error in Practice Power of a Hypothesis Test […]