9 Hypothesis Testing

Chapter 9 Formulas and Vocabulary

section 9.1

(alpha) (p. 495)
Alternative hypothesis (p. 489)
(beta) (p. 495)
Hypothesis testing (p. 488)
Level of significance (p. 495)
Null hypothesis (p. 489)
Statistical significance (p. 492)
Type I error (p. 494)
Type II error (p. 494)

section 9.2

Critical region (p. 500)
Critical value, (p. 500)
Essential idea about hypothesis testing for the mean (p. 498)
Level of significance (p. 500)
Noncritical region (p. 500)
Test statistic (p. 499)
(p. 499).

section 9.3

-Value (p. 508)
Rejection rule for performing a hypothesis test using the -value method (p. 509)

section 9.4

Critical value, (p. 525)
(p. 525).

section 9.5

Essential idea about hypothesis testing for the proportion (p. 543)
Standard error of the proportion (p. 543)
for the hypothesis test for the population proportion (p. 543).

section 9.6

(p. 556).
Essential idea about hypothesis testing for the standard deviation (p. 556)

section 9.7

Power curve (p. 567)
Power of a hypothesis test (p. 567)