HYPOTHESIS TESTING & CONFIDENCE INTERVALS

ONE SAMPLE

INFERENCE
PROCEDURE CONDITIONS TEST STATISTIC CONFIDENCE INTERVAL CALCULATOR
One Mean
population  is known SRS, x  μ0 STATTESTS
z=
large sample size (n  30)  σ    
OR

 n 
 x z*  Z-Test (1) OR
   n
approximately normal
population distribution (no Zinterval (7)
outliers and very little
skewness)

One Mean
population  is NOT SRS, x  μ0 STATTESTS
t=
known large sample size (n  30)  s   s 
OR

 n 
 x t *   T-Test (2) OR
   n
approximately normal
df = n - 1 df = n - 1
population distribution (no Tinterval (8)
outliers and very little
skewness)
Paired Differences dependent samples, d  d0 sd First form differences
Test & C.I. for  d large sample sizes OR t  d t * STAT TESTS 
 sd  n
where d = x1 – x2 approximately normal   T-Test(2) OR
population distributions (no  n Tinterval (8) using the d
df = n – 1, where n is the
outliers and very little df = n – 1, where n values
number of pairs
skewness) is the number of
pairs
One Proportion
SRS, 10n  N, p-π0 p (1  p ) STATTESTS
z p z *
nπo  10 1-PropZTest (5)
π 0 (1 π 0 ) n
n(1 - πo)  10 OR 1-PropZInt (A)
n
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TWO SAMPLES
INFERENCE
PROCEDURE CONDITIONS TEST STATISTIC CONFIDENCE INTERVAL CALCULATOR
Two Means
1 & 2 known Independent SRS, (x1  x2 )  value0 STATTESTS
large sample size OR z 
 1   2 
2 2
  2  2 
Test and C.I. for: approximately normal  1
 2   x1  x 2   z *  2-SampZTest (3)
1 - 2 population distributions (no  n1 n2  n1 n2 OR
 
outliers and very little 2-SampZInt (9)
skewness)

Two Means
1 & 2 NOT known Independent SRS, (x1  x2 )  value0 STATTESTS
large sample size OR
t 
s1  s2 
2 2
  s 2  s 2 
Test and C.I. for: approximately normal  1
 2   x1  x 2   t *  2-SampTTest (4)
1 – 2 population distributions (no  n1 n2  n1 n2 OR
 
outliers and very little df = n - 1 2-SampTInt (0)
Pooled : df = n1 + n2 – 2
skewness)
Non-pooled: (ugly formula)
If 1 = 2; Pooled
If 1  2; NOT pooled

Two Proportions STATTESTS

SRS, 10n  N, p1  p2  p1  p2  
Test and C.I. for: n1p1  10, n2p2  10
z  2-PropZTest (6) OR
1 1
π1 – π2 n1(1 – p1)  10, n2(1 – p2)  10 p (1  p )  p (1  p1 ) p2 (1  p2 )
n1 n2 z* 1 
n1 n2 2-PropZInt (B)
(assuming H0: π1 - π2 = 0)
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MISCELLANEOUS

INFERENCE
PROCEDURE CONDITIONS TEST STATISIC OTHER INFORMATION CALCULATOR
ObsL1 ExpL2
2 Goodness of Each expected cell count  5 (O  E )2 n x 1 matrix of expected cell L3 = ((L1 – L2)2)/L2
fit 2   counts ListMathSum(L3)
E
Distr2pdf(sum,
df = n – 1 df)

2 Test of Each expected cell count  5 (O  E )2 Expected cell value  Observed Count in
association or 2   Matrix A
E (row total )(column total )
homogeneity StatTests
Grand Total 2Test (C)
df = (#rows – 1)(#columns – 1)

slope of the 1. At any given x-value, y has a normal b β C.I. = b  t * sb StatTests

t
population distribution with same variance sb df = n - 2 LinRegTTest (C)
regression line 2. Expected value of residuals = 0 df = n – 2
3. Observations are independent