Significance Testing Vocab

regions marked by critical values if your test statistic is in the rejection region

• rejection region

• acceptance region

• critical value

• test statistic

separates the rejection region from the non-rejection region

• rejection region

• acceptance region

• critical value

• test statistic

Left tail

• Ha >

• Ha <

• Ha /=

Two tail

• Ha >

• Ha <

• Ha /=

Right tail

• Ha >

• Ha <

• Ha /=

process that uses sample statistics to test a claim about a population parameter

• null hypothesis

• alternative hypothesis

• statistical hypothesis

• hypothesis test

statement about a population parameter

• null hypothesis

• alternative hypothesis

• statistical hypothesis

• hypothesis test

statistical hypothesis that is the complement to a null

• null hypothesis

• alternative hypothesis

• statistical hypothesis

• hypothesis test

statistical hypothesis which has a statement equality with an equals sign

• null hypothesis

• alternative hypothesis

• statistical hypothesis

• hypothesis test

Statistic compared with the parameter in the null

• Level of Significance

• Type 1 Error

• Type 2 Error

• Test Statistic