Sunday 24 June 2012

What Is a Statistical Hypothesis?


"A hypothesis is a statement of a relationship between two or more variables." A statistical hypothesis is simply a particular kind of hypothesis.A statistical hypothesis is either (1) a statement about the value of a population parameter (e.g., mean, median, mode, variance, standard deviation, proportion, total), or (2) a statement about the kind of probability distribution that a certain variable obeys.

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