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1. Lecture 9 - Introduction Slide
2. Review of hypothesis testing
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3. Statistical Tests
4. Statistical Tests, cont.
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5. Analysis of Continuous Data: 1-sample Z-test1-sample t-test ...
6. Example: One-sample Z-test
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7. z distribution
8. t-tests
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9. Comparison of normal vs. t distributions
10. Properties of the t-distribution
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11. Example: One-sample t-test
12. t-distribution, 14 df
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13. Two-sample t-test
14. Example: two-sample t-test
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15. t-distribution, 40 df
16. Paired t-test
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17. Example: Paired t-test
18. Example: paired t-test (cont’d)
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19. What if your data are not normally distributed and your samp...
20. Analysis of Nominal Data: Chi-square test
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21. Properties of the Chi-square Distribution
22. Chi-square test
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23. Example: Chi-square test
24. Hypotheses for Chi-square example
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25. Example: Chi-square test, cont. 1
26. Example: Chi-square test, cont. 2
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27. Example: Chi-square test, cont. 3
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