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Tests of Hypothesis
1. Statistical Techniques in Business &
Economics by Lind, Marchal, and
Mason
2. Statistics for Managers by Levine,
Stephan, Krehbiel, Berenson
S t e p 1 : S t a t e n u ll a n d a lt e r n a t e h y p o t h e s e s
S t e p 2 : S e le c t a le v e l o f s ig n ific a n c e
S t e p 3 : F o r m u la t e a d e c is io n r u le
S t e p 4 : I d e n t ify a n d d e t e r m in e t h e t e s t s t a t is t ic b a s e d o n s a m p le d a t a
S t e p 5 : M a k e a d e c is io n / c o n c lu s io n
D o n o t r e je c t n u ll R e je c t n u ll a n d a c c e p t a lt e r n a t e
Ho H1 or Ha Test of Significance
1 = Two-tailed
Region of rejection
Region of rejection
0.025 0.025
µ
Step 2, LOS = 5%
Region of rejection
0.05
-1.71 t
Region of non-rejection
ˆ P
p
Z
P (1 P )
n
P population proportion
ˆ sample proportion
p
0.95
-1.96 +1.96 Z