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Understanding Significance Testing
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Understanding Significance Testing

Volume: 73
April 1990 | 80 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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Significance testing - a core technique in statistics for hypothesis testing - is introduced in this volume. Mohr first reviews what is meant by sampling and probability distributions and then examines in-depth normal and t-tests of significance. The uses and misuses of significance testing are also explored.
 
Introduction
 
Some Definitions
 
The Sampling Distribution
 
Interval Estimation
 
Significance Testing
 
The Functions of the Test

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