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Chapter 5 addressed real-world questions of the form, “Based on this sample data, what’s the unknown value of our parameter?” A confidence interval is required as an answer. In this chapter, we consider two other types of real-world problem. Both types of problem involve a statistical hypothesis and ask us, in a sense which we must make precise, to “test” that hypothesis against sample data. First, we’ll see exactly what a statistical hypothesis is and then give an overview of these two new problems.
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Creighton, J.H.C. (1994). Introduction to Tests of Statistical Hypotheses. In: A First Course in Probability Models and Statistical Inference. Springer Texts in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8540-8_6
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