Critical values

Finding Critical Values and Degrees of Freedom

Many students struggle to find critical values of z, t, and Chi-square for hypothesis tests. No matter how often I show them how to use the StatCrunch calculators to do this, they gravitate back to the tables. And make a lot of mistakes. To help a bit, I have created some Excel calculators that should …

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Setting up Hypothesis Tests

Leave a Comment / All, Analytics, BUS 430, BUS 503, Statistics / By Dawn Wright

The Null and Alternative The most common problem I noticed on this assignment was caused by failing to properly identify the appropriate null and alternative hypotheses. In part, this is due to the Evans text’s somewhat confusing explanation of how to do this – the “burden of proof” approach. There is a much simpler approach …

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