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genevieve1028

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Suppose a test procedure about the population mean  is performed, when the population is normal with an unknown variance, and a sample of size 20 is drawn from the population.
 
  If the alternative hypothesis is H1 :  > 0, then the null hypothesis is rejected at a level  = 0.05 if t > 1.729. Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Discuss the conceptual basis of using a t-test for inferences about the population slope parameter.
 
  How does this t-test relate to the t-test for the correlation coefficient and the F test for the significance of the model? Do all these relationships make sense?



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gabrielle_lawrence

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Answer to Question 1

TRUE

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What we are testing is whether the sample slope statistic is significantly far enough away from 0 to say that the true population slope is significantly different from 0. The sample slope b1 has a normal distribution and that leads to a t-test for the slope where the standard error of b1 is estimated by s . If the t statistic is big enough or small enough then the true slope differs significantly from 0. This t-test statistic is exactly equivalent to the t-test statistic for the correlation. That is because, if the true slope is 0, then based on the model, Y does not depend on X and so they are not correlated. On the other hand, if the correlation is 0, there is no linear relationship between X and Y and hence according to the model, the true slope must be 0. Moreover, the F test for the significance of the model is also equivalent to these t-tests because (tn-2)2 = F1,n-2. Of course, if the model is not significant, that means that Y does not depend on X and thus the slope and the correlation coefficient are all 0.




genevieve1028

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Reply 2 on: Jun 24, 2018
Excellent


dantucker

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Great answer, keep it coming :)

 

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