Significance Testing

Question 1

What are type one errors?

Answer 1

Optimistic error - Have rejected the null hypothesis and accepted the alternate hypothesis
Researcher claims they have significant results when the results were caused by random variables

Question 2

What are type two error?

Answer 2

Pessimistic error - the Null hypothesis was accepted and the alternative hypothesis was rejected
This is when the effect the researchers was attempting to demonstrate does exist that was a significant result but the researcher claims there was no significance in the results

Question 3

What is the value for sign test?

Answer 3

S value

Question 4

Is the value for man Whitney?

Answer 4

U value

Question 5

What is the value for a Wilcoxon test?

Answer 5

T test

Question 6

What is the value for a unrelated and related T test? 

Answer 6

T value

Question 7

What is the value for Spearman’s rho?

Answer 7

Rho value

Question 8

What is the value for pearsons R test?

Answer 8

R value

Question 9

What is the value for chi squared test?

Answer 9

Chi / X^2