Chapter 11 Homework

Inference for Distributions

Read and know about:

Section 11.1: Significance Tests: The Basics

  1. Overall Chapter Review (pp. 736-737)
  2. Summary p. 702
  3. Stating Hypotheses H0 and Ha(691)
  4. Conditions for Significance Tests (694)
  5. P-value (696)
  6. Statistical Significance (699)

Section 11.2: Carrying Out Significance Tests

  1. Summary pp. 713
  2. Toolbox (705)
  3. Z Test for Population Mean (705)
  4. Example 11.11 (707-708)
  5. Confidence Levels of Two Sided Tests (710)

11.3 Use and Abuse of Tests

  1. Summary (721)
  2. Ignoring Lack of Significance (718)
  3. Hawthorne Effect (719)
  4. Multiple Analyses (720)

11.4 Using Inference to Make Decisions

  1. Summary (721)
  2. Type I and Type II Errors(723)
  3. Power (729)
  4. Increasing the Power (730)

Exercises

Section 11.1

11.6 (p. 693)
11.9 (p. 698)
11.12 (p. 699)
11.15 (p. 701)
11.19 (p. 703)

Section 11.2

11.33 (p. 712)
11.39 (p. 714)

Section 11.3

11.43 (p. 721)
11.45 (p. 722)
11.47 (p. 722)

Section 11.4

11.49 (p. 727)
11.51 (p. 728)
11.53 (p. 733)
11.62 (p. 734)
11.73 (p. 739)