What is a significance test?

a formal procedure for comparing observed data with a claim

Type II Error occurs when....

You fail to reject H0 but H0 was false

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9.1 Intro to Significance tests

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1
What analogy did I relate significance tests, hypotheses, and type I and II errors to....
Wasn't paying attention (whoops)
The weather
Criminal Case
Fortnite
2
What does the greek symbol alpha, α, mean in statistics?
Type I Error
P-value
Significance level
Alternative Hypothesis
3
Type 1 Error occurs when....
You reject Ha but Ha was true
You fail to reject H0 but H0 was false
You reject H0 but H0 was true
You fail to reject H0 but H0 was true
4
In Statistics what does significant mean?
Statistics gives words different meanings?! What?!
statistically speaking it means a large amount
Important (duh I know my English)
not likely to happen by chance
5
What does H_a stand for?
Null Hypothesis
The first Hypothesis - HB is the second - and so on...
Alternative Hypothesis
Hypothesis Assumption
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When the p-value is less than the significance level we....
reject H0
Woops I did not pay attention when I wrote my notes
fail to reject H0
Ms. Kane you've lost me
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What is a significance test?
a formal procedure for comparing observed data with a claim
Never heard of that....
a procedure that tells us if data is important or not
a probability that measure normality
8
Type II Error occurs when....
You reject Ha but Ha was true
You fail to reject H0 but H0 was false
You reject H0 but H0 was true
You fail to reject H0 but H0 was true
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What does H₀ stand for?
Null Hypothesis
Hypothesis of 0
Never seen that before...
Alternative Hypothesis
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When the p-value is greater than or equal to the significance level we....
fail to reject H0
Ms. Kane what's a p-value?
Woops I did not pay attention when I wrote my notes
reject H0

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