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Name: Hypothesis Testing of Single Mean and Single Proportion: Null and Alternate Hypotheses
ID: m16998
Language: English (en)
Summary:
Subject: Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords: elementary, statistics
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 2.0
Authors: Susan Dean (deansusan@deanza.edu), Barbara Illowsky, Ph.D. (illowskybarbara@deanza.edu)
Copyright Holders: Maxfield Foundation (cnx@cnx.org)
Maintainers: Susan Dean (deansusan@deanza.edu), Barbara Illowsky, Ph.D. (illowskybarbara@deanza.edu), Connexions (cnx@cnx.org)
Latest version: 1.9 (history)
First publication date: Jun 6, 2008 5:19 pm GMT-5
Last revision to module: Jul 2, 2009 10:51 pm GMT-5
Module XML: m16998_1.9.cnxml

Version History

Version: 1.9 Jul 2, 2009 10:51 pm GMT-5 by Susan Dean
Changes: 
Hypothesis Testing of Single Mean and Single Proportion: Null and Alternate Hypotheses:  Added an explanation to the note about the use of the symbols for greater than and less than.
Version: 1.8 Apr 22, 2009 5:17 pm GMT-5 by Susan Dean
Changes: 
Hypothesis Testing of Single Mean and Single Proportion: Null and Alternate Hypotheses: For example 2, the subscripts were corrected (they had previously been switched).
Version: 1.7 Jan 29, 2009 11:04 pm US/Central by Susan Dean
Changes: 
Hypothesis Testing of Single Mean and Single Proportion: Null and Alternate Hypotheses: Changed Ho to read "It is a statement about the population that will be assumed to be true unless it can be shown to be incorrect beyond a reasonable doubt."
Version: 1.6 Jan 28, 2009 2:49 pm US/Central by Susan Dean
Changes: 
Hypothesis Testing of Single Mean and Single Proportion: Null and Alternate Hypotheses: Near the beginning of the module, changed the definition of Ho to read "It is a statement about the population that will be assumed to be true 
unless it can be shown to be incorrect beyond a reasonable doubt."
Version: 1.5 Oct 27, 2008 3:20 pm GMT-5 by James Cooper
Changes: 
roles updated
Version: 1.4 Jul 18, 2008 10:38 am GMT-5 by Connexions
Changes: 
removed draft note
Version: 1.3 Jul 8, 2008 7:09 pm GMT-5 by Connexions
Changes: 
post review edits
Version: 1.2 Jul 7, 2008 11:14 pm GMT-5 by Connexions
Changes: 
post review updates
Version: 1.1 Jun 26, 2008 2:17 pm GMT-5 by Connexions
Changes: 
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