Hypothesis Testing

Based on your sample, you will conduct a hypothesis test with  to test two of the claims of the above article.

Using the same excel sheet as last week, answer the following in the “week 6” tab:

• Claim: the average age of      online students is 32 years old. Can you prove it is not?

· What is the null hypothesis?

· What is the alternative hypothesis?

· What distribution should be used?

· What is the test statistic?

· What is the p-value?

· What is the conclusion?

· How do we interpret the results, in context of our study?

• Claim: the proportion of      males in online classes is 35%. Can you prove it is not?

· What is the null hypothesis?

· What is the alternative hypothesis?

· What distribution should be used?

· What is the test statistic?

· What is the p-value?

· What is the conclusion?

· How do we interpret the results, in context of our study?