• Confidence intervals for the mean using MINITAB
• Hypothesis Testing
  • H₀: Null Hypothesis
  • H_a: Alternative Hypothesis
  • Test Statistic
  • Decision Rule
  • Type I and Type II errors; alpha, beta

Experiment with and study 'The Central Limit Theorem in Action' and confidence interval applets referenced in 'Resources.'

Read pp 340 - 356 (Hypothesis Testing)

Exercises:

1. p 258; 10.8
2. p 261; 10.11
3. p 325; 13.1
4. p 329; 13.4, 13.5, 13.6
5. p 330; 13.7
6. p 333; 13.13, 13.14
7. p342; 14.1, 14.2
8. p 344; 14.3, 14.4
9. p 345; 14.7, 14.8

'The Central Limit Theorem in Action' applet, author: David Krider

'Confidence Interval Applet', R. Webster West and R. Todd Ogden
University of South Carolina
Journal of Statistics Education v.6, n.3 (1998)

'Confidence Interval Applet', Jeffrey S. Buzas, The University of Vermont, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

MINITAB

Text: The Basic Practice of Statistics, David S. Moore; Third Edition, Freeman, 2003