Statistics for Criminology and Criminal Justice
Fourth Edition
Learning Objectives
- Explain the purpose of hypothesis testing to determine the difference between a population mean and proportion and a sample mean and proportion.
- Conduct and interpret the results of hypothesis tests for a sample mean and proportion.
- Describe the difference between a directional (one-tailed) and nondirectional (two-tailed) null hypothesis test.
- Evaluate the advantage of conducting a directional (one-tailed) hypothesis test compared to a nondirectional test.
- Identity the appropriate sampling distribution to use for a one sample hypothesis test when the sample size is small.