HYPOTHESIS TESTING
Hypothesis testing is a statistical method used to determine if there is enough evidence to support a specific claim or assumption about a population
Concepts
What is a hypothesis test?
Hypothesis testing is a statistical method used to make decisions or inferences about population parameters based on sample data.
Types of Errors in Hypothesis Testing
Understand the significance of Type I and Type II errors in statistical tests and how they impact decision-making.
Steps for a Hypothesis Test
Follow these steps to perform a hypothesis test effectively: defining hypotheses, selecting a significance level, conducting the test, and interpreting results.
P-Value
Learn what the P-value represents, its role in hypothesis testing, and how to use it effectively.
Power of a test
The power of a test measures the ability of a statistical test to detect an effect when there is one
Parametric hypothesis testing
One-sample tests
Hypothesis testing for mean
Learn how to perform hypothesis testing for a population mean, whether you know the population variance or not, and the scenarios where it applies.
Hypothesis testing for variance
Learn how to perform hypothesis tests for variance, which are essential for comparing the variability of different populations or ensuring process consistency.
Hypothesis testing for proportion
Learn how to perform hypothesis testing for proportions, a fundamental technique in statistics used to compare population proportions with a specific value or with each other.
One-sample z-test for a mean
The one-sample z-test tests whether a population mean equals a specific value when the population standard deviation is known.
Two-sample tests
F-test for equality of variances
The F-test evaluates whether two populations have equal variances, using the ratio of their sample variances and the F distribution.
Welch's t-test
Welch's t-test compares the means of two independent groups without assuming equal population variances, making it more robust than the pooled t-test.
Two-sample z-test for proportions
The two-sample z-test compares two population proportions using a pooled estimate under the null hypothesis of equal proportions.
Paired t-test
The paired t-test compares two related measurements on the same subjects by reducing the problem to a one-sample test on the differences.
Analysis of variance (ANOVA)
Learn about Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), a fundamental statistical technique used to determine whether there are significant differences between the means of three or more groups.
Non-parametric hypothesis testing
Chi-square test
Learn how to perform and interpret the Chi-square test, a key statistical tool for examining the association between categorical variables.
Kolmogorov-Smirnov (Lilliefors) test
Learn how to apply the Kolmogorov-Smirnov (Lilliefors) test, a nonparametric test used to evaluate the goodness of fit for a sample distribution against a reference distribution.
Shapiro-Wilk test
The Shapiro-Wilk test is a powerful tool for assessing whether a given sample comes from a normally distributed population. It is particularly useful in small sample sizes.
Jarque-Bera test
Learn about the Jarque-Bera test, a statistical test that checks the normality of a dataset by examining its skewness and kurtosis.
Sign test
Learn how to perform and interpret the Sign test, a nonparametric alternative to the paired t-test that makes no assumptions about the distribution of the data.
Wilcoxon test
Learn how to apply and interpret the Wilcoxon test, a versatile nonparametric method used for hypothesis testing on paired or independent samples without assuming normality.
Ljung-Box test
Understand the Ljung-Box test, a crucial tool for identifying autocorrelation in time series data, and learn how to apply it effectively.
Kruskal-Wallis test
The Kruskal-Wallis test is the nonparametric alternative to one-way ANOVA, comparing three or more independent groups using ranks instead of raw values.