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document.write( "you are conducting a one tailed, right tail test using the z-test for means;<BR>\n" );
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document.write( ">>  the level of significance is 0.025;   question:  what is the critical z-value???<BR>\n" );
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document.write( ">> the calculated z-value is 2.33;   question:   what is the p-value??<BR>\n" );
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document.write( ">> finally -- based on the above .. do we accept or reject the null hypothesis??  why or why not??\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "you are conducting a one tailed, right tail test using the z-test for means;\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( ">> the level of significance is 0.025; question: what is the critical z-value???<BR>\n" );
document.write( "It is the z-value which has on 2.5% of the data to the right.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "That z-value is z=1.96<BR>\n" );
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document.write( ">> the calculated z-value is 2.33; question: what is the p-value??<BR>\n" );
document.write( "It is the percentage of the population that has a greater z-value.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Answer: p-value = P(2.33 < z < 10) = 0.0099..<BR>\n" );
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document.write( ">> finally -- based on the above .. do we accept or reject the null hypothesis??<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Ans: Reject Ho<BR>\n" );
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document.write( " why or why not?? <BR>\n" );
document.write( "Less than 1% of the test statistic results could have given stronger<BR>\n" );
document.write( "evidence that Ho should be rejected.<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Another way to look at this is the following.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "If the hypothesized mean were really true the probability of getting <BR>\n" );
document.write( "the test results we received was less than 1%.  Rather than say \"oh,<BR>\n" );
document.write( "well, those things happen\" we say, that hypothesized mean is wrong.<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Cheers,<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Stan H.\r<BR>\n" );
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