Monday, 24 November 2003
Confidence Intervals & Hypothesis Testing

Topics
Assignments
Resources
  • Confidence intervals for the mean:
  • Hypothesis Testing
    • H0: Null Hypothesis
    • Ha: Alternative Hypothesis
    • Test Statistic
    • Decision Rule

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

'New Confidence Interval Applet' by R. Webster West, Dept. of Statistics, Univ. of South Carolina
west@stat.sc.edu

'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

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