At times we wish to examine statistical evidence, and determine whether it supports or contradicts a claim that has been made (or that we might wish to make) concerning the entire population. This is ...

Should you believe the findings of scientific studies? Amid current concerns about the public’s trust in science, old ...

Having data is only half the battle. How do you know your data actually means something? With some simple Python code, you can quickly check if differences in data are actually significant. In ...

In the realm of technical product development, hypothesis testing acts as a bridge between design, data and decision-making. It enables teams to move beyond assumptions and validate their ideas ...

In this paper we propose a new class of statistics to test a simple hypothesis against a family of alternatives characterized by a mixture model. Unlike the likelihood ratio statistic, whose large ...

Omnibus tests for various nonparametric hypotheses are developed using the empirical likelihood method. These include tests for symmetry about zero, changes in distribution, independence and ...

Students will conduct an experiment in order to determine the origin of a family artifact. Students will determine whether the results from an experiment successfully determined the origin of a family ...