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Hypothesis Testing
 Hypothesis is making an assumption.
 In Statistics, a Hypothesis or an assumption is

taken first and then the Hypothesis is tested

whether it is accurate or not.
 Hypothesis testing is a study based on

statistical accuracy of an experiment.

 If the result is positive, then it is called

statistically significant.

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Hypothesis Testing
 There are two types of statistical hypotheses.
 A Null Hypothesis and an Alternate

Hypothesis.
 A Null Hypothesis is denoted by H , it is
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actually an assumption that the simple
observations are purely from chance.
 Alternate Hypothesis on the other hand is

denoted by H1 or Ha, assumes that that

sample is influenced by a non-random cause.

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An example for Hypothesis Testing.
 Suppose that we want to test the hypothesis
with a significance level of .05 that the
climate has changed since industrialization.  
 Suppose that the mean temperature

throughout history is 50 degrees.  

 During the last 40 years, the mean

temperature has been 51 degrees and

suppose the population standard deviation is
2 degrees.  What can we conclude?  

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Solution
 We have
H0:  µ = 50 or the temperature is normal
H1:  µ ≠50 or the temperature has changed
 We compute the z score:
 (51-50)/(2/√40) = 3.16
 The table gives us 0.9992
 So that p = (1 – 0.9992)(2) = 0.002
 Since 0.002 < 0.05 

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Solution
 We can conclude that the Alternate
Hypothesis is accepted and there has been a
change in temperature. 

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