What Is the Purpose of Hypothesis Testing

question 35

Multiple Choice

What is the purpose of hypothesis testing?

• A)to draw conclusive decisions about sample estimates
• B)to determine whether there is support to draw conclusions about some
• Characteristics of the population given the evidence provided by the sample results
• C)to summarize and describe the sample data
• D)to test whether the sample is scientifically drawn from a target population
• E)to conduct statistical tests on census data

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