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Name: Hypothesis Testing
ID: m11531
Language: English (en)
Summary:
Subject: Science and Technology
Keywords: alternative, binary, composite, decision boundary, decision regions, detection probability, false alarm, false-alarm probability, hypotheses, hypothesis test, M-ary, miss, miss probability, null, one-sided, phase-shift keying, power, simple, size, two-sided, type I error, type II error
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 1.0)

Authors: Clayton Scott (cscott@rice.edu), Robert Nowak (nowak@engr.wisc.edu)
Copyright Holders: Clayton Scott (cscott@rice.edu), Robert Nowak (nowak@engr.wisc.edu)
Maintainers: Clayton Scott (cscott@rice.edu), Robert Nowak (nowak@engr.wisc.edu), Elizabeth Gregory (elizabeth.gregory@gmail.com), Jeffrey Silverman (JSilverman@astro.berkeley.edu)

Version: 1.6 (history)
Created: Jul 28, 2003 10:03 am GMT-5
Revised: May 10, 2004 2:48 pm GMT-5

Version History

Version: 1.6 May 10, 2004 2:48 pm GMT-5 by Jeffrey Silverman
Changes:
Added and fixed figures and some MathML and fixed one typo.

Version: 1.5 Oct 16, 2003 9:54 am GMT-5 by (None)
Changes:
fixed broken link

Version: 1.4 Aug 7, 2003 2:50 pm GMT-5 by Jeffrey Silverman
Changes:
Made some MathML and presentation changes for Clay.

Version: 1.3 Jul 31, 2003 1:23 pm GMT-5 by Jeffrey Silverman
Changes:
Added line breaks on equal signs (equations) and changed some style for Clay.

Version: 1.2 Jul 30, 2003 2:32 pm GMT-5 by Jeffrey Silverman
Changes:
Fixed one connexion.

Version: 1.1 Jul 28, 2003 3:08 pm GMT-5 by Jeffrey Silverman
Changes:
First Version.

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Scott, C., & Nowak, R. (2004, May 10). Hypothesis Testing. Retrieved from the Connexions Web site: http://cnx.org/content/m11531/1.6/

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Scott, Clayton, and Robert Nowak. "Hypothesis Testing." Connexions. May 10, 2004. http://cnx.org/content/m11531/1.6/.

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Clayton Scott and Robert Nowak, "Hypothesis Testing," Connexions, May 10, 2004, http://cnx.org/content/m11531/1.6/.

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