Learn R: Hypothesis Testing
Learn about the statistics used to run hypothesis tests. Then, learn how to use R to run different t-tests that compare distributions.
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Sample Vs. Population Mean
Sample Vs. Population Mean
In statistics, we often use the mean of a sample to estimate or infer the mean of the broader population from which the sample was taken. In other words, the sample mean is an estimation of the population mean.
Hypothesis Testing with R
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- 1Say you work for a major social media website. Your boss comes to you with two questions: * does the demographic of users on your site match the company’s expectation? * did the new interface updat…
- 2Suppose you want to know the average height of an oak tree in your local park. On Monday, you measure 10 trees and get an average height of 32 ft. On Tuesday, you measure 12 different trees and rea…
- 3In the previous exercise, the sample means you calculated closely approximated the population mean. This won’t always be the case! Consider a tailor of school uniforms at a school for students age…
- 4You begin the statistical hypothesis testing process by defining a hypothesis, or an assumption about your population that you want to test. A hypothesis can be written in words, but can also be …
- 5Suppose you want to know if students who study history are more interested in volleyball than students who study chemistry. Before doing anything else to answer your original question, you come up …
- 6When using automated processes to make decisions, you need to be aware of how this automation can lead to mistakes. Computer programs can be as fallible as the humans who design them. Because of th…
- 8While a hypothesis test will return a p-value indicating a level of confidence in the null hypothesis, it does not definitively claim whether you should reject the null hypothesis. To make this dec…
- 9Consider the fictional business BuyPie, which sends ingredients for pies to your household so that you can make them from scratch. Suppose that a product manager hypothesizes the average age of vis…
- 10Suppose that last week, the average amount of time spent per visitor to a website was 25 minutes. This week, the average amount of time spent per visitor to a website was 29 minutes. Did the averag…
- 11Suppose that you own a chain of stores that sell ants, called VeryAnts. There are three different locations: A, B, and C. You want to know if the average ant sales over the past year are significan…
- 13Before you use numerical hypothesis tests, you need to be sure that the following things are true: #### 1. The samples should each be normally distributed…ish Data analysts in the real world of…
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