Hi everyone! Read through the material below, watch the videos, work on the Excel lecture and follow up with me if you have questions.

 

Learning Outcomes.

  • Determine if the data supports a hypothesis at a given significance level using known distributions.

Topic. This lesson covers: Inference about a Population Mean with Unknown Standard Deviation

WeBWorK. Sets 9.3-9.6 – due 12/11 at 4pm

 

Videos

Hypothesis Testing with Sigma Unknown

The Applied View

Watch the video Small Sample Inference for One Mean.

  1. Why won’t the z-procedure work in most cases, particularly if the sample size is small?
  2. Who invented t-inference procedures?
  3. Compare a normal density curve with a t-distribution for a sample size of 3. How are the two distributions similar and how do they differ?
  4. For a t-distribution, how are the degrees of freedom related to sample size?
  5. For a 95% confidence interval, which is larger, z* or t*?