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?