- Logic of Hypothesis Testing from David Lane's Online Statistics
- Steps in Hypothesis Testing from University of New England - School of Psychology's WebStat
- Hypothesis Testing Workshop from Thomson Higher Education
- lecture notes on Hypothesis Testing from ViSta
You should have noticed by now that there are elements of hypothesis testing that kept on recurring in those sites listed above. These are the following:
- null hypothesis
- alternative hypothesis, which may either be:
- nondirectional or
- directional
- appropriate statistical test
You may wish to take the workshops by Thomson Higher Education on test of means and choosing the correct statistical test.
Some parts of these workshops may not make sense when you first encounter them. You will certainly find them useful in the future when you're already familiar with the different statistical procedures mentioned in these workshops. - significance level (α) which is very much connected to error and power
- decision rule where you may want to compare:
- the statistic's computed value vs its critical/tabular value or
- the computed value's statistical significance (p) vs the set α
- computation of the statistic and p-value
- decision to accept or reject the null hypothesis based on the stated decision rule
Below is a ppt presentation from the publishers of our book:
Click HERE if you wish to view the downloadable handout with notes.
Review the lesson using the the following materials from Wadsworth Cengage:
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