Friday, March 16, 2012

More Test of Significance Notes

Be able to define and interpret about type 1 and type 2 error and alpha, beta and power.

Inference Notes  (from MG at PVMHS)

6 comments:

  1. I thought that the notes were helpful with further explaining some of the vocabulary that we have touched on in class. I am still confused as to how to tell if a problem is considered one sided or two sided. Also, I know that the threshold is called the the test's alpha, I am not exactly sure what the alpha level or threshold actually is.

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  2. I, along with Courtney, don't really understand the alpha level and where that comes into everything. I also don't completely understand what the "power" means when talking about Type 1 and 2 errors.

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  3. I thoughts the notes did a better job explaining everything and spelling things out for me to understand. but i am having a hard time understanding how to tell if a problem is one sided or two sided. and like courtney and zach i as well don't quite understand the alpha level

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  4. I liked the way the notes defined what exactly a P-level is because i didnt understand why if the P-level was low we reject the null hypothesis. Now that is cleared up. I didnt understand what it meant when it got into one-tailed hypothesis and two-tailed hypothesis and how they correspond with the Confidence Levels.

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  5. I thought the notes were helpful in explaining everything in a different way and I think i have a better understanding now but like everyone else i'm still a little confused about the "power" and how exactly we should use or find that. I also don't really understand the one and two tailed hypotheses

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  6. The notes were really helpful, but I am still a bit confused about the difference between the two kinds of hypotheses.

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