This is the p-value using the multiplication rule for independent events. Conclusion: Using 0. Often you will see significance levels reported with additional description to indicate the degree of statistical significance. A general guideline although not required in our course is:. We learned quite a lot about hypothesis testing. We learned the logic behind it, what the key elements are, and what types of conclusions we can and cannot draw in hypothesis testing.
Here is a quick recap:. In this setting, if the p-value is very small, this implies, assuming the null hypothesis is true, that it is extremely unlikely that the results we have obtained would have happened due to random error alone, and thus our assumption Ho is rejected in favor of the alternative hypothesis Ha.
Home Introduction Metacognition. CO Apply basic concepts of probability, random variation, and commonly used statistical probability distributions. Video: Steps in Hypothesis Testing Learn by Doing: State the Hypotheses. Did I Get This? Learn By Doing: Using p-values.
Breadcrumb Home 1 1. We will cover the seven steps one by one. Step 1: State the Null Hypothesis The null hypothesis can be thought of as the opposite of the "guess" the researchers made in this example the biologist thinks the plant height will be different for the fertilizers.
Why do we do this? Why not simply test the working hypothesis directly? The answer lies in the Popperian Principle of Falsification. So we set up a null hypothesis which is effectively the opposite of the working hypothesis. The hope is that based on the strength of the data we will be able to negate or reject the null hypothesis and accept an alternative hypothesis. A potential data source in this case might be census data, since it includes data from a variety of regions and social classes and is available for many countries around the world.
Scribbr editors not only correct grammar and spelling mistakes, but also strengthen your writing by making sure your paper is free of vague language, redundant words and awkward phrasing. See editing example. There are a variety of statistical tests available, but they are all based on the comparison of within-group variance how spread out the data is within a category versus between-group variance how different the categories are from one another. If the between-group variance is large enough that there is little or no overlap between groups, then your statistical test will reflect that by showing a low p -value.
This means it is unlikely that the differences between these groups came about by chance. Alternatively, if there is high within-group variance and low between-group variance, then your statistical test will reflect that with a high p -value. This means it is likely that any difference you measure between groups is due to chance. Your choice of statistical test will be based on the type of data you collected.
Based on the type of data you collected, you perform a one-tailed t-test to test whether men are in fact taller than women.
This test gives you:. Your t-test shows an average height of The p -value is 0. Based on the outcome of your statistical test, you will have to decide whether to reject or fail to reject your null hypothesis.
In most cases you will use the p -value generated by your statistical test to guide your decision. And in most cases, your cutoff for rejecting the null hypothesis will be 0. The results of hypothesis testing will be presented in the results and discussion sections of your research paper.
In the results section you should give a brief summary of the data and a summary of the results of your statistical test for example, the estimated difference between group means and associated p -value. In the discussion , you can discuss whether your initial hypothesis was supported by your results or not. In the formal language of hypothesis testing, we talk about rejecting or failing to reject the null hypothesis.
You will probably be asked to do this in your statistics assignments. In our comparison of mean height between men and women we found an average difference of However, when presenting research results in academic papers we rarely talk this way.
Instead, we go back to our alternate hypothesis in this case, the hypothesis that men are on average taller than women and state whether the result of our test was consistent or inconsistent with the alternate hypothesis.
If your null hypothesis was rejected, this result is interpreted as being consistent with your alternate hypothesis. We found a difference in average height between men and women of This is because hypothesis testing is not designed to prove or disprove anything. It is only designed to test whether a pattern we measure could have arisen spuriously, or by chance.
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