Hypothesis Testing

Describe using your own words

1. What is a hypothesis?
2. What is the null hypothesis, and what is its symbol?
   3 What is the alternative hypothesis, and what is its symbol?
3. Describe the normal distribution in your own words.
4. What are the critical regions on the normal distribution?
5. What does it mean if a result is significant? Describe your answer in words.
6. Describe how you can tell significance from a p-value.
7. Describe effect size and when you would find it.
8. What does it mean if the effect size is d=.50?
9. What are inferential statistics?

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