Talk:Alternative hypothesis

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This article needs to be renamed to "Alternative hypothesis", as "alternate" is the wrong word. Melcombe (talk) 16:55, 19 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

 Y Done Parsecboy (talk) 20:47, 31 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

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  This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 27 August 2021 and 19 December 2021. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Leolsz. Peer reviewers: Hanshenli, 0.25cm, Shg7D1.

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Inappropriate image

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In a two-tailed distribution, the tails are the light-yellow regions of the graph, on the right. Imagine that a container of margarine has been filled with 250g, but within an error + or - 2.5g. The container is to be rejected for sale if the error exceeds 2.5g.

This image appears in the article, but it seems to be not relevant to this context of hypothesis testing. There is no hypothesis, and there is no data set other than the single data point of this one container. So I'm going to delete the image. Loraof (talk) 17:29, 21 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

Potentially wrong example

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I think that the null hypothesis in the example is not complete. It states "there is no change in quality between the first and second halves of the data" and the alternative is "the quality is poorer in the second half of the record". What if the quality turns out to be better? Shouldn't the null specify something like "Quality 2 ⩾ Quality 1" since the alternative is "Quality 2 < Quality 1"?