Overview & Objectives

Welcome to the 'Hypothesis Testing' content lesson!

This section of our online course will introduce you to the basic principles of hypothesis testing.

By the time you are finished with this content lesson, you should be able to:

Distinguish between a sample and a population
Describe the concept of random sampling
Distinguish between a Null hypothesis and an Alternative hypothesis
Define Type I and Type II errors
Define the Alpha level
Describe the concept of hypothesis testing
Find a Z score from a raw score, a percentage, or a percentile rank
Carry out an appropriate hypothesis test on a single population mean using Z scores
Interpret p-values
Define degrees of freedom
Carry out appropriate hypothesis tests using the one-sample and the two-sample independent t test
Carry out appropriate hypothesis tests using the one-way ANOVA
Perform a chi-squared hypothesis test