In: Statistics and Probability
In what exact scenarios would the "null hypothesis" be either
rejected or accepted?
What exactly does it mean?
SOLUTION:
From given data,
In what exact scenarios would the "null hypothesis" be either rejected or accepted?
The typical approach for testing a null hypothesis is to select a statistic based on a sample of fixed size, calculate the value of the statistic for the sample and then reject the null hypothesis if and only if the statistic falls in the critical region other wise it will be accept.
What exactly does it mean?
Rejecting or accepting the null hypothesis on the basis of some test, but not of accepting the null hypothesis or the alternative hypothesis.
Often in an experiment we are actually testing the validity of the alternative hypothesis by testing whether to reject the null hypothesis.