A Level Maths Notes: S2



Hypothesis Testing Using a Test Statistic or Probabilities

Choosing Which Distribution to Use

Finding the Median, Mean and Mode of a Continuous Distribution

Hypothesis Testing Using a Test Statistic or Using Probabilities

Testing a Distribution For Goodness of Fit to Data

The Central Limit Theorem

The Continuity Correction

The Poisson Distribution

Type I and Type II Errors – The Power of a Test

One or Two Tailed Hypothesis Tests – A Discussion

Hypothesis Testing – Critical Values and Regions

Testing for Goodness of Fit to a Poisson Distribution by Comparing Variance and Mean

The Normal Approximation to the Binomial Distribution and the Continuity Correction

The Normal Approximation to the Geometric Distribution and the Continuity Correction

The Normal Approximation to the Poisson Distribution and the Continuity Correction

Conditions for a Distribution to be Approximated by a Normal Distribution

Prediction and Extrapolation

What is a Stattistic?

Formulating Null and Alternative Hypotheses

Significance Levels and p - Values

Mode of a Continuous Distribution

Finding the Median of a Continuous Distribution

The Cumulative Distribution Function

The Uniform Distribution

Populations, Samples and Censuses












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