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test statistic

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noun

  1. a statistic used to test a hypothesis.


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The test statistic is clearly in the tail and thus we cannot accept the null hypotheses that there is no difference between the two situations, hypnotized and not hypnotized.

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Next, on the basis of the hypotheses and sample size, select the appropriate test statistic and find the relevant critical value: Zα, tα, etc.

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The test statistic will have to account for this fact.

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As we tested hypotheses about a mean we observed that large variances reduced the calculated test statistic and thus it failed to reach the tail of the distribution.

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We see that the test statistic is in the tail and thus we move to step 4 and reach a conclusion.

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