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Lecture 9: Common Statistical Tests
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: Alice Tang, Ph.D.
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Lecture 9 - Introduction Slide
Review of hypothesis testing
Statistical Tests
Statistical Tests, cont.
Analysis of Continuous Data: 1-sample Z-test1-sample t-test 2-sample t-test Paired t-test
Example: One-sample Z-test
z distribution
t-tests
Comparison of normal vs. t distributions
Properties of the t-distribution
Example: One-sample t-test
t-distribution, 14 df
Two-sample t-test
Example: two-sample t-test
t-distribution, 40 df
Paired t-test
Example: Paired t-test
Example: paired t-test (cont’d)
What if your data are not normally distributed and your sample size is relatively small?
Analysis of Nominal Data: Chi-square test
Properties of the Chi-square Distribution
Chi-square test
Example: Chi-square test
Hypotheses for Chi-square example
Example: Chi-square test, cont. 1
Example: Chi-square test, cont. 2
Example: Chi-square test, cont. 3
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