A hypothesis test has the objective of testing different results against each other. You use them to check a result against something you already believe is true. In a hypothesis test, you’re checking if the new alternative hypothesis
Hypothesis tests are either one-sided or two-sided. In a one-sided test, the alternative hypothesis is left-sided with
Note! In hypothesis testing, you calculate the alternative hypothesis to say something about the null hypothesis.
Rule
For example, you would have a reason to believe that a high observed value of
Example 1
There is a drug on the market that you know cures
This is a classic case of hypothesis testing by binomial distribution. You now follow the recipe above to answer the task and select
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The alternative hypothesis in this case is that the new drug is better. The reason for this is that you only need to know if you are going to approve for sale and thus the new drug must be better:
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If the