A Null Hypothesis Is a Statement About the Value of a Population

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A null hypothesis is a statement about the value of a population parameter.

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Definitions:

Kruskal-Wallis Test

A nonparametric method for testing whether samples originate from the same distribution, used when the assumptions of the ANOVA are not met.

Critical Value

A point on the scale of a statistical distribution that is used to determine the boundary for rejecting the null hypothesis in hypothesis testing.

One-sample T-test

A statistical test used to compare the mean of a single sample to a known average or standard value.

Parametric Counterpart

Refers to statistical tests or models that assume a certain distribution shape for the underlying data, as opposed to non-parametric methods which do not.