Statistics Ch 10 Vocab and Key Concepts

Null hypothesis

A claim about a population characteristic that is initially assumed to be true

Alternative hypothesis

A competing claim about a population characteristic

Reject the Ho

If the P is low...

Type I error

The error of rejecting Ho when Ho is true

Type II error

The error of failing to reject Ho when Ho is false

The probability of a Type I error

alpha (significance level)

The probability of a Type II error

beta