What Is the Purpose of Hypothesis Testing

question 36

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