Successful completion of this course demonstrate your achievement of the following learning outcomes for the MS-DS program: Define a composite hypothesis and the level of significance for a test with ...

Hypothesis testing provides organizations with a structured approach to evaluate assumptions using data, reducing reliance on intuition and enhancing decision accuracy. By validating decisions with ...

Business owners like to know how their decisions will impact their businesses. According to Harvard Business School Online, before making decisions, managers may explore the benefits of hypothesis ...

In the early 20 th century, Guinness breweries in Dublin had a policy of hiring the best graduates from Oxford and Cambridge to improve their industrial processes. At the time, it was considered a ...

What is the chi-squared test? The chi-squared test, often written as χ 2 test, is a statistical hypothesis test used in the analysis of categorical variables to determine whether observed data are ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

During his Ph.D. research, mathematician Tyron Lardy worked on a new approach to hypothesis testing. Instead of the traditional p-value, he uses so-called e-values. These turn out to be more ...

Post-hoc testing is carried out after a statistical analysis where you have performed multiple significance tests, ‘post-hoc’ coming from the Latin “after this”. Post-hoc analysis represents a way to ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

In the middle of the 20 th century, the field of psychology had a problem. In the wake of the Manhattan Project and in the early days of the space race, the so-called “hard sciences” were producing ...