Steps in testing of hypothesis

Steps in testing of hypothesis

    1. The process of testing a hypothesis involves following steps.
    2. Formulation of null & alternative hypothesis.
    3. Specification of level of significance.
    4. Selection of test statistic and its computation.
    5. Finding out the critical value from tables using the level of significance, sampling distribution and its degrees of freedom.
    6. Determination of the significance of the test statistic.
    7. Decision about the null hypothesis based on the significance of the test statistic.
    8. Writing the conclusion in such a way that it answers the question on hand.
       

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