Many, such as a population's mean and standard deviation, are represented by Greek letters like µ (mu) and σ (sigma). Much of the time, these statistics are inferential in nature because samples ...

P[Type I error]=Alpha and P[Type II error]=Beta. In the next examples Type I and Type II errors will be calculated in hypothesis tests for a population mean. In all the following examples assume that ...

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A confidence interval is a range of values, bounded above and below the statistic's mean, that likely would contain an unknown population parameter. Confidence level refers to the percentage of ...

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A t-test for a population mean tests the population mean against a hypothesized value. It is appropriate when the population standard deviation is unknown and the sample size is small. This applet ...

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