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6 - Hypothesis Testing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2017

Alan D. Chave
Affiliation:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts
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This chapter discusses the theory of hypothesis testing under the Neyman-Pearson Lemma. The concepts of null and alternate hypottheses and distributions, type 1 error, power and p-values are introduced, including several cautionary notes about the latter. The commonly used parametric hypothesis tests (z, t, chi square, F and Bartlett's M) are defined and illustrated with data, including power calculation. The distribution of the correlation coefficient is derived and implemented with Matlab. One-way analysis of variance as a method to compare the means of two or more groups is elucidated. The relationship between hypothesis tests and confidence intervals is established, Likelihood ratio tests for simple and composiite hypotheses are defined, and shown to be widely optimal. The Wald and score tests that are simple, but asymptotically equivalent to a likelihood ratio test, are introduced. The simultaneous testing of multiple hypotheses is then described, including the seminal Benjamini-Hochberg approach.
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Computational Statistics in the Earth Sciences
With Applications in MATLAB
, pp. 142 - 168
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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  • Hypothesis Testing
  • Alan D. Chave, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts
  • Book: Computational Statistics in the Earth Sciences
  • Online publication: 06 October 2017
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316156100.007
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  • Hypothesis Testing
  • Alan D. Chave, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts
  • Book: Computational Statistics in the Earth Sciences
  • Online publication: 06 October 2017
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316156100.007
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  • Hypothesis Testing
  • Alan D. Chave, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts
  • Book: Computational Statistics in the Earth Sciences
  • Online publication: 06 October 2017
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316156100.007
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