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  2. Null hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    A possible null hypothesis is that the mean male score is the same as the mean female score: H 0: μ 1 = μ 2. where H 0 = the null hypothesis, μ 1 = the mean of population 1, and μ 2 = the mean of population 2. A stronger null hypothesis is that the two samples have equal variances and shapes of their respective distributions.

  3. Type I and type II errors - Wikipedia

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    This is why the hypothesis under test is often called the null hypothesis (most likely, coined by Fisher (1935, p. 19)), because it is this hypothesis that is to be either nullified or not nullified by the test. When the null hypothesis is nullified, it is possible to conclude that data support the "alternative hypothesis" (which is the ...

  4. Statistical hypothesis test - Wikipedia

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    Here the null hypothesis is by default that two things are unrelated (e.g. scar formation and death rates from smallpox). [7] The null hypothesis in this case is no longer predicted by theory or conventional wisdom, but is instead the principle of indifference that led Fisher and others to dismiss the use of "inverse probabilities". [8]

  5. Test statistic - Wikipedia

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    the exact sampling distribution of T under the null hypothesis is the binomial distribution with parameters 0.5 and 100. the value of T can be compared with its expected value under the null hypothesis of 50, and since the sample size is large, a normal distribution can be used as an approximation to the sampling distribution either for T or ...

  6. Null distribution - Wikipedia

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    Null distribution is a tool scientists often use when conducting experiments. The null distribution is the distribution of two sets of data under a null hypothesis. If the results of the two sets of data are not outside the parameters of the expected results, then the null hypothesis is said to be true. Null and alternative distribution

  7. False positive rate - Wikipedia

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    As opposed to that, the false positive rate is associated with a post-prior result, which is the expected number of false positives divided by the total number of hypotheses under the real combination of true and non-true null hypotheses (disregarding the "global null" hypothesis). Since the false positive rate is a parameter that is not ...

  8. Welch's t-test - Wikipedia

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    In statistics, Welch's t-test, or unequal variances t-test, is a two-sample location test which is used to test the (null) hypothesis that two populations have equal means. It is named for its creator, Bernard Lewis Welch , and is an adaptation of Student's t -test , [ 1 ] and is more reliable when the two samples have unequal variances and ...

  9. Z-test - Wikipedia

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    The null hypothesis is that the mean value of X is a given number μ 0. We can use X as a test-statistic, rejecting the null hypothesis if X − μ 0 is large. To calculate the standardized statistic Z = ( X ¯ − μ 0 ) s {\displaystyle Z={\frac {({\bar {X}}-\mu _{0})}{s}}} , we need to either know or have an approximate value for σ 2 , from ...