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Lecture #6
Introduction to Hypothesis
Testing
We illustrate the method of hypothesis testing with an
example. Throughout this example, the lingo of
hypothesis testing will be introduced. We will use this
terminology throughout the rest of the chapter.
Example: Historically, an average of 1,808 people
have entered a certain store each day. In hopes of
increasing the number of customers, a designer is
hired to refurbish the store's entrance. After the
redesign, a simple random sample of 45 days is taken.
In this sample, an average of 1,895 people enter the
store daily, with a sample SD of 187. Does it appear
that the redesign of the store's entrance was effective?
“Solution”: There are two possibilities:
1. The increase in the average number of customers
may be plausibly attributed to a run of good luck, or
2. The average increased after the redesign.
We cannot give a decisive answer to this question,
since both of these explanations are possible. The first
option, which attributes the increase in the number of
customers to mere chance, is called the null
hypothesis. The other option is called the alternative
hypothesis. We need to assess which option is more
plausible.
Under certain extremes, the choice is fairly obvious.
• If 10,000 people were now entering the story daily,
then it can be confidently concluded that, after the
redesign, the store had more customers. In this case,
we would reject the null hypothesis.
• On the other hand, if the store averaged only 1,809
people entering daily, then such an increase is
reasonably attributable to chance. In this case, we
would retain (or fail to reject) the null hypothesis.
Somewhere between these two extremes will be a
certain cut-off point called the critical value. Above
this critical value, it will be more plausible to think
that the average number of customers increased after
the redesign. Below this critical value, it will be more
plausible to think that the increase is simply
attributable to chance.
1808
1809
Critical
value
10,000
Therefore, the question may be rephrased as follows:
Is the sample average of 1,895 close enough to 1,808
to be consistent with the assumption that the
population mean is still 1,808?
This question leads to two hypotheses:
H0 : The average is still 1,808.
Ha : The average is greater than 1,808.
(Why greater?)
H0 : The average is still 1,808.
Ha : The average is greater than 1,808.
1808
Decision: Retain H0
Critical
value
Reject H0
Example:
A dime is flipped 100 times to determine if it is fair.
State the null and alternative hypotheses.
H0 : p = 0.5
Ha : p ≠ 0.5
Critical
value
Reject H0
p = 0.5
Retain H0
Critical
value
Reject H0
Essential difference between probability and statistics:
Probability: A fair dime is flipped 100 times. Find the
probability that it lands heads 55 times.
50% 0 50% 1
?
?
?
?
?
Statistics: A dime is flipped 100 times to determine if
it is fair.
1-p 0
p 1
0
1
1
0
0
Example: Many staff members in teaching hospitals
are hired in July. Because of these inexperienced staff
members, is it more dangerous to be admitted to a
teaching hospital between July and September than it
is during the rest of the year?
State the null and alternative hypotheses.
Example:
A dime is suspected of landing heads more often than
tails. It is flipped 100 times to determine if it is fair.
State the null and alternative hypotheses, and draw the
corresponding figure.
No matter where we set the critical value, we will
occasionally make a mistake. By chance, a fair coin
may land heads more times than the critical value.
This situation is called a Type I error, meaning that we
would decide to reject the null hypothesis even though
the coin was fair.
The probability of a Type I error is denoted by a.
• Another type of error could occur if the coin that
favors heads actually lands heads less often than the
critical value.
• This is called a Type II error, meaning that we fail to
reject the null hypothesis even though the coin is
imbalanced.
• The probability of a Type II error is denoted by b.
• We define the power of the test to be 1 - b.
This is the probability of correctly rejecting the null
hypothesis when the null hypothesis is false.
Type I Error:
The null hypothesis is true but we reject it.
P(reject H0| H0 is true) = α
Type II Error:
The null hypothesis is false but we retain it.
P(retain H0| H0 is false) = β
Power:
P(reject H0| H0 is false) = 1- β
THE WAY IT IS
H0 true
THE
WAY
WE
THINK
IT IS
Ha true
Decide
to retain
H0
Type II Error
Decide
to reject
H0
Type I Error
Example: Many staff members in teaching hospitals
are hired in July. Because of these inexperienced staff
members, is it more dangerous to be admitted to a
teaching hospital between July and September than it
is during the rest of the year?
State in words what a Type I error means.
Repeat for a Type II error.
Example: Historically, an average of 1,808 people
have entered a certain store each day. In the hopes of
increasing the number of customers, a designer is
hired to refurbish the store's entrance. After the
redesign, a simple random sample of 45 days is taken.
In this sample, an average of 1,895 people enter the
store daily, with a sample standard deviation of 187.
State in words what a Type I error means.
Repeat for a Type II error.
Basic question: “How do we pick the critical value?”
Typically, the value of a is prescribed and the critical
values are determined by a. We will discuss this in
more depth later.
For now, to develop our intuition, we’ll take the
critical values as prescribed and compute a and b
from these critical values.
Example: A scientific article compared two different methods
for the analysis of ampicillin dosages. It was thought that the
first method generally returned a higher amount than the
second method. In one series of experiments, pairs of tablets
were analyzed by the two methods. The data below give the
percentages of claimed amount of ampicillin found by the two
methods in 15 pairs of tablets. State the null and alternative
hypotheses.
97.2
105.8
99.5
100.0
93.8
97.2
97.8
96.2
101.8
88.0
79.2
76.0
69.5
23.5
95.2
74.0
75.0
67.5
21.2
94.8
96.8 95.8
99.2 98.0
99.2 99.0
91.0 100.2
72.0 67.5
Solution #1 (in words):
H0 : If there is a difference, the probability that the first
method returns a higher amount is 50%.
Ha : If there is a difference, the probability that the first
method returns a higher amount is greater than 50%.
Solution #2 (more precise): Let p be the population
proportion of pairs in which the first method returns a higher
amount.
H0 : p = 0.5
(simple hypothesis)
Ha : p > 0.5
(compound hypothesis)
Example: For this particular data set, there are 14 pairs in
which there is a measurable difference. Let K denote the
number of pairs in which the first method returned a higher
amount. Suppose we make the decision rule
Retain H0 if K  9, and
reject H0 if K  10.
Compute a.
97.2
105.8
99.5
100.0
93.8
97.2
97.8
96.2
101.8
88.0
79.2
76.0
69.5
23.5
95.2
74.0
75.0
67.5
21.2
94.8
96.8 95.8
99.2 98.0
99.2 99.0
91.0 100.2
72.0 67.5
Solution: This is the risk of an error in case that H0 is true.
a = P(H0 is rejected | H0 is true)
= P(K  10 | p = 0.5)
14 
14 
14 
10
4
11
3
  (0.5) (0.5)   (0.5) (0.5)   (0.5)12 (0.5) 2
10 
 11 
12 
14 
14 
13
1
14
0




  (0.5) (0.5)   (0.5) (0.5)
13 
14 
 0.0897827
Example: Suppose we make the decision rule
retain H0
if K  9
reject H0
if K  10
Compute b if
(a) p = 0.7
(b) p = 0.9
Solution: (a) This is the risk of an error in case that
p = 0.7, so that H0 is false.
b = b (0.7)
= P(H0 is retained | p = 0.7)
= P(K  9 | p = 0.7)
14 
14 
14 
0
14
1
13
  (0.7) (0.3)   (0.7) (0.3)   (0.7) 2 (0.3)12  
0
1
2
14 
14 
7
7 14 
8
6
  (0.7) (0.3)  (0.7) (0.3)   (0.7)9 (0.3)5
7
8
9
 0.415799
Solution: (b) This is the risk of an error in case that
p = 0.9, so that H0 is false.
b = b (0.9)
= P(H0 is retained | p = 0.9)
= P(K  9 | p = 0.9)
14 
14 
14 
0
14
1
13
  (0.9) (0.1)   (0.9) (0.1)   (0.9) 2 (0.1)12  
0
1
2
14 
14 
7
7 14 
8
6
  (0.9) (0.1)  (0.9) (0.1)   (0.9) 9 (0.1) 5
7
8
9
 0.00923021
Notice that b is a function of p.
(Why is this function decreasing?)
1
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
0.5
0.6
0.7
0.8
0.9
1
Power = 1 - b.
1
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
0.5
0.6
0.7
0.8
0.9
1
Note. This lengthy calculation may be facilitated by
using page 505 from the back of the book:
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
0.1
0.2288
0.5846
0.8416
0.9559
0.9908
0.9985
0.9998
1.0000
1.0000
1.0000
1.0000
1.0000
1.0000
1.0000
1.0000
0.2
0.0440
0.1979
0.4481
0.6982
0.8702
0.9561
0.9884
0.9976
0.9996
1.0000
1.0000
1.0000
1.0000
1.0000
1.0000
0.25
0.0178
0.1010
0.2811
0.5213
0.7415
0.8883
0.9617
0.9897
0.9978
0.9997
1.0000
1.0000
1.0000
1.0000
1.0000
0.3
0.0068
0.0475
0.1608
0.3552
0.5842
0.7805
0.9067
0.9685
0.9917
0.9983
0.9998
1.0000
1.0000
1.0000
1.0000
0.4
0.0008
0.0081
0.0398
0.1243
0.2793
0.4859
0.6925
0.8499
0.9417
0.9825
0.9961
0.9994
0.9999
1.0000
1.0000
0.5
0.0001
0.0009
0.0065
0.0287
0.0898
0.2120
0.3953
0.6047
0.7880
0.9102
0.9713
0.9935
0.9991
0.9999
1.0000
0.6
0.0000
0.0001
0.0006
0.0039
0.0175
0.0583
0.1501
0.3075
0.5141
0.7207
0.8757
0.9602
0.9919
0.9992
1.0000
0.7
0.0000
0.0000
0.0000
0.0002
0.0017
0.0083
0.0315
0.0933
0.2195
0.4158
0.6448
0.8392
0.9525
0.9932
1.0000
0.8
0.0000
0.0000
0.0000
0.0000
0.0000
0.0004
0.0024
0.0116
0.0439
0.1298
0.3018
0.5519
0.8021
0.9560
1.0000
0.9
0.0000
0.0000
0.0000
0.0000
0.0000
0.0000
0.0000
0.0002
0.0015
0.0092
0.0441
0.1584
0.4154
0.7712
1.0000
0.95
0.0000
0.0000
0.0000
0.0000
0.0000
0.0000
0.0000
0.0000
0.0000
0.0004
0.0042
0.0301
0.1530
0.5123
1.0000
This lengthy calculation may also be facilitated with
EXCEL: =BINOMDIST(9,14,0.7,1)
TI-83: binomcdf(14,0.7,9)
Example: For this particular data set, there are 14 pairs in
which there is a measurable difference. Let K denote the
number of pairs in which the first method returned a higher
amount. Suppose we make the decision rule
Retain H0 if K  10, and
reject H0 if K  11.
Compute a.
97.2
105.8
99.5
100.0
93.8
97.2
97.8
96.2
101.8
88.0
79.2
76.0
69.5
23.5
95.2
74.0
75.0
67.5
21.2
94.8
96.8 95.8
99.2 98.0
99.2 99.0
91.0 100.2
72.0 67.5
Solution: This is the risk of an error in case that H0 is true.
a = P(H0 is rejected | H0 is true)
= P(K  11 | p = 0.5)
14 
14 
11
3
  (0.5) (0.5)   (0.5)12 (0.5) 2
 11 
12 
14 
14 
13
1
  (0.5) (0.5)   (0.5)14 (0.5) 0
13 
14 
 0.0286865
Practically, why did this decrease?
Note. This lengthy calculation may be facilitated by using
page 505 from the back of the book:
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
0.1
0.2288
0.5846
0.8416
0.9559
0.9908
0.9985
0.9998
1.0000
1.0000
1.0000
1.0000
1.0000
1.0000
1.0000
1.0000
0.2
0.0440
0.1979
0.4481
0.6982
0.8702
0.9561
0.9884
0.9976
0.9996
1.0000
1.0000
1.0000
1.0000
1.0000
1.0000
0.25
0.0178
0.1010
0.2811
0.5213
0.7415
0.8883
0.9617
0.9897
0.9978
0.9997
1.0000
1.0000
1.0000
1.0000
1.0000
0.3
0.0068
0.0475
0.1608
0.3552
0.5842
0.7805
0.9067
0.9685
0.9917
0.9983
0.9998
1.0000
1.0000
1.0000
1.0000
0.4
0.0008
0.0081
0.0398
0.1243
0.2793
0.4859
0.6925
0.8499
0.9417
0.9825
0.9961
0.9994
0.9999
1.0000
1.0000
0.5
0.0001
0.0009
0.0065
0.0287
0.0898
0.2120
0.3953
0.6047
0.7880
0.9102
0.9713
0.9935
0.9991
0.9999
1.0000
0.6
0.0000
0.0001
0.0006
0.0039
0.0175
0.0583
0.1501
0.3075
0.5141
0.7207
0.8757
0.9602
0.9919
0.9992
1.0000
0.7
0.0000
0.0000
0.0000
0.0002
0.0017
0.0083
0.0315
0.0933
0.2195
0.4158
0.6448
0.8392
0.9525
0.9932
1.0000
0.8
0.0000
0.0000
0.0000
0.0000
0.0000
0.0004
0.0024
0.0116
0.0439
0.1298
0.3018
0.5519
0.8021
0.9560
1.0000
From the back of the book, 1 - 0.9713 = 0.0287
From Excel, use =1 - BINOMDIST(10,14,0.5,1)
0.9
0.0000
0.0000
0.0000
0.0000
0.0000
0.0000
0.0000
0.0002
0.0015
0.0092
0.0441
0.1584
0.4154
0.7712
1.0000
0.95
0.0000
0.0000
0.0000
0.0000
0.0000
0.0000
0.0000
0.0000
0.0000
0.0004
0.0042
0.0301
0.1530
0.5123
1.0000
Unfortunately, decreasing a also has the effect
of increasing b. (Why?)
1
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
0.5
0.6
0.7
0.8
0.9
1
In statistical parlance, the test has become less powerful.
1
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
0.5
0.6
0.7
0.8
0.9
1
Note: In a perfect world, we would have a = b = 0,
but this can only happen in trivial cases. For any
realistic scenario of hypothesis testing, decreasing a
will increase b, and vice versa.
In practice, we set the significance level a in
advance, usually at a fairly small number (a  0.05 is
typical) . We then compute b for this level of a.
(Ideally, we would like to construct a test that makes
b as small as possible. This topic will be considered
in future statistics courses.)
In these problems, the critical regions were prescribed
and a was computed.
In practice, a is chosen and the critical value is
computed to match this value of a.