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An Exercise to Introduce Power
Author(s) -
Seier Edith,
Liu Yali
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9639.2011.00464.x
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , statistics , binomial distribution , population , computer science , power (physics) , binomial (polynomial) , econometrics , mathematics , medicine , geography , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , environmental health
Summary In introductory statistics courses, the concept of power is usually presented in the context of testing hypotheses about the population mean. We instead propose an exercise that uses a binomial probability table to introduce the idea of power in the context of testing a population proportion.