Question

consider which step of the hypothesis test procedure makes a decision on the statistical hypothesis and which step determines the substantive nature of the results of the hypothesis test?

Answer 1

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Question:

Which step of the hypothesis test procedure makes a decision on the statistical hypothesis?

The following are the steps of Hypothesis Testing:

Step 1: Specify Null Hypothesis and Alternative Hypothesis

Step 2: Set the Significance Level ()

Step 3: Calculated Test Statistic and corresponding p - value

Step 4: Drawing a conclusion whether to Fail to reject Null Hypothesis OR Reject Null Hypothesis

Step 5: Interpreting the Statistical conclusion arrived at in Step 4 for actual study

Here,

Step 4: Drawing a conclusion whether to Fail to reject Null Hypothesis OR Reject Null Hypothesis makes a decision on the statistical hypothesis

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Question:

Which step determines the substantive nature of the results of the hypothesis test ?

Here,

Step 5: Interpreting the Statistical conclusion arrived at in Step 4 for actual study determines the substantive nature of the results of the hypothesis test.