Chapter 8-9 Vocabulary

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  1. 3. The number of independent values or quantities that can be assigned to a statistical distribution is called degrees of ______
  2. 5. Specific value of a point estimator from a sample is called a point ______
  3. 7. The _____ value depends on both the confidence level C and the sampling distribution of the statistic
  4. 9. Procedure for using observed data to decide between two competing claims is a _____ test
  5. 10. The probability, computed supposing H0 to be true, that the statistic will take a value at least as extreme as the observed result in the direction specified by Ha is a __-_____
  6. 12. The standard error of the sample _____ describes how far it will typically be from p in repeated SRSs of size n
  7. 14. The _____ of a significance test against a specific alternative is the probability that the test will reject H0 when the alternative is true
  8. 15. The alternative hypothesis is ___-___ if it states that the parameter is different from the null value
  9. 16. The standard error of the sample ____ describes how far it will typically be from ยต in SRSs of size n
  10. 17. An alternative hypothesis that states that a parameter is larger than the null hypothesis value or that states that the parameter is smaller than the null value is called a ___-___ alternative hypothesis
Down
  1. 1. Reject the null hypothesis when it is actually true is a Type __ error
  2. 2. The ___-_____ has more area in the tails than the standard Normal distribution
  3. 4. The difference between the point estimate and the true parameter value will be less than the margin of error in C% of all samples, where C is the confidence level is called the ___ of error
  4. 5. Statistic that provides an estimate of a population parameter is called a point ______
  5. 6. Fail to reject the null hypothesis when it is actually false is a Type __ error
  6. 7. A _____ interval gives an interval of plausible value for a parameter
  7. 8. The claim that we are trying to find evidence for in a significance test is called the ____ hypothesis
  8. 11. Calculation that measures how far a sample statistic diverges from what we would expect if the null hypothesis Ho were true, in standardized units is called the test ______
  9. 13. The success rate of the method for calculating the confidence interval is called the Confidence _____
  10. 18. The Claim we weight evidence against in a significance test is called the ____ hypothesis