Monday, December 12, 2011

Null and Alternative Hypothesis ?

I'm having trouble distinguishing between the null and alternative hypotheses in my online stats class.





Here's an example question: A store manager would like to know if the mean checkout time using the standard checkout method is longer than using the Fast Lane.





In the book they ask you to state the two hypotheses (null %26amp; alternative). Here's what the example showed:





H0: Us is less than or equal to Uf


H1: Us is greater than Uf





How do you decide which is null and which is alternative?|||The claim is always the alternative if it can assume more than one value. Here, the managaer wants to know (assume it is a claim).

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