UNIT-3

Points to be covered:
(A) Test of H:ypothesis-I
• Introduction and procedure
• Null and alternative hypothesis
• Simple and composite hypothesis
• Sample error, level of significance, one and two
tail.
(B) Test of Hypothesis-II
• Difference between large and small sample test
• Degree of freedom
• Condition for applying T-Test.
(C )Application of T-Test:
• Test of significance of mean
• Test of significance of difference of two mean
• Paired T-Test
(D) Large Sample test (Z test):
• Test of significance of mean
• Test of significance of difference of two mean,
• Test of significance between two S.D.
(A)Testing of Hypothesis-1
Introduction:
 The main objective of taking a sample from a
population is to get reliable information about the
population.
 From the information obtained from the sample,
conclusions are drawn about the population.
 This is called statistical inference.
 It may consist of two parts:
(1) Estimation of parameters
(2) Test of statistical hypothesis
Parameters and Statistics:
A parameter is a number that describes the
population. A parameter is a fixed number, but
in practice we do not know its value because
we cannot examine the entire population.
A statistic is a number that describes a sample.
The value of a statistic is known when we have
taken a sample, but it can change from sample
to sample. We often use a statistic to estimate
an unknown parameter.
Statistical Hypothesis:
A statistical hypothesis is an assumption about the
parameter of the population or the nature of the
population. For examples
1) The population mean μ = 25
2) The average weights of students of college A and
college B are same.
3) 20% of the students of a college are non
vegetarians.
4) The given population is a binomial population.
are some of the hypothesis.
Null Hypothesis:
 A statistical hypothesis which is taken for the possible
acceptance is called a null hypothesis and it is denoted
by H0
 The neutral attitude of the decision maker, before the
sample observations are taken is the key note of the null
hypothesis.
 For examples:
1) Mean of the population is 60. H0 : μ = 60.
2) Means of both populations are equal. H0 : μ1 = : μ2
3) The proportion of drinkers in both the cities are equal
H0 : P1 = P2
Alternative Hypothesis:
A hypothesis is complementary to the null
hypothesis is called alternative hypothesis and
it is denoted by H1.
For examples:
(1)H1: μ ≠ 60
(2) H1 : μ1 ≠ μ2
(3) H1: P1 ≠ P2
are alternative hypothesis.
Simple Hypothesis:
A simple hypothesis is one where the value of
the parameter under Ho is a specified constant
and the value of the parameter under H1 is a
different specified constant.
For example, if you test
Ho: μ = 0 vs H1: μ = 10
then you have a simple hypothesis test.
Here you have a particular value for Ho and a
different particular value for H1.
Composite Hypothesis:
 Most problems involve more than a single alternative.
Such hypotheses are called composite hypotheses.
 Examples of composite hypotheses:
Ho: μ = 0 vs H1: μ ≠ 0
which is a two-sided H1.
 A one-sided H1 can be written as
Ho: μ = 0 vs H1: μ > 0
or
Ho: μ = 0 vs H1: μ < 0
 All of these hypotheses are composite because they
include more than one value for H1.
Sample Error (standard Error):
The standard deviation of the sample statistic is
called standard error of the statistics.
For example, if different samples of the same
size n are drawn from a population, we get
different values of sample mean (x-bar).
The S.D. of (x-bar) is called standard error of
(x-bar).
Standard error of (x-bar) will depend upon the
size of the sample and the variability of the
population.
It can be derived that S.E. = (σ / √n).
Standard errors of some well known statistics:
NO. STATISTICS S.E

1. Mean (x-bar) 
n
2. Difference between two means

x 1  x2   12
n1

 22
n2
3. Sample Proportion p PQ
n
4. Difference between two
PQ P2Q2
proportions
P1’ – p2’
1 1

n1 n2
Uses of S.E:
1) To test whether a given value of a statistic differs
significantly from the intended population parameter.
i.e. whether the difference between value of the
sample statistic and population parameter is
significant and the difference may be attribute to
chance.
2) To test the randomness of a sample i.e. to test whether
the given sample be regarded as a random sample
from the population.
3) To obtain confidence interval for the parameter of the
population.
4) To determine the precision of the sample estimate,
because precision of a statistic
= 1/ S.E. of the statistic
Type I and type II Errors:
 In testing of a statistical hypothesis the following situations
may arise:
1) The hypothesis may be true but it is rejected by the test.
2) The hypothesis may be false but it is accepted by the test.
3) The hypothesis may be true and is accepted by the test.
4) The hypothesis may be false and is rejected by the test.
 (3) and (4) are the correct decisions while (1) and (2) are
errors.
 The error committed in rejecting a hypothesis which is true
is called Type-I error and its probability is denoted by α
 The error committed in accepting a hypothesis which is
false is called Type-II error and its probability is denoted by
β.
 Accept Reject
Ho is true Correct decision Type – I error

Ho is false Type-II error Correct decision

Level of Significance:
 In any test procedure both the types of errors should be kept
minimum.
 They are inter-related it is not possible to minimize both the
errors simultaneously.
 Hence in practice, the probability of type-I error is fixed and
type –II error is minimized.
 The fixed value of type-I error is called level of significance
and it is denoted by α.
 Thus level of significance is the probability of rejecting a
hypothesis might to be accepted.
 Most commonly used l.o.s. are 5% and 1%.
 When decision is taken at 5% l.o.s., it means that in 5 cases out
of 100, it is likely to reject a hypothesis which might to be
accepted.
i.e. our decision to reject Ho is 95% correct.
Critical Region:
 If test statistic falls in some interval which
support alternative hypothesis, we reject the null
hypothesis. This interval is called rejection region
 It test statistic falls in some interval which support
null hypothesis, we fail to reject the alternative
hypothesis. This interval is called acceptance
region
 The value of the point, which divide the rejection
region and acceptance one is called critical value
One-Sided or One-Tailed Hypothesis Tests

In most applications, a two-sided or two-tailed

hypothesis test is the most appropriate approach. This
approach is based on the expression of the null and
alternative hypotheses as follows:
H0:  = 170 vs H1:  ≠ 170
To test the above hypothesis, we set up the rejection
and acceptance regions as shown on the next slide,
where we are using  = 0.05.

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 Accept H0

Reject H0 Reject H0
0.025 0.95 0.025

Z
In this example, the rejection region probabilities
are equally split between the two tails, thus the
reason for the label as a two-tailed test.
This procedure allows the possibility of rejecting
the null hypothesis, but does not specifically
address, in the sense of statistical significance,
the direction of the difference detected.
There may be situations when it would be
appropriate to consider an alternative hypothesis
where the directionality is specifically addressed.
That is we may want to be able to select between
a null hypothesis and one that explicitly goes in
one direction. Such a hypothesis test can best be
expressed as:
H0:  = 170 vs H1:  > 170
The expression is sometimes given as:
H0:  ≤ 170 vs H1:  > 170
The difference between the two has to do with how
the null hypothesis is expressed and the implication
of this expression.
The first expression above is the more theoretically
correct one and carries with it the clear connotation
that an outcome in the opposite direction of the
alternative hypothesis is not considered possible.
This is, in fact, the way the test is actually done.
The process of testing the above hypothesis is
identical to that for the two-tailed test except that all
the rejection region probabilities are in one tail.
For a test, with α = 0.05, the acceptance region would
be, for example, the area from the extreme left up to
the point below which lies 95% of the area.
The rejection region would be the 5% area in the
upper tail.
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Critical values at important level of significance
are given below.
1% 5% 10%
Two tailed test 2.58 1.96 1.645
One tailed test 2.33 1.645 1.282
(B) Testing Of Hypothesis -2:
Introduction:
• The value of a statistics obtained from a large
sample is generally close to the parameter of the
population.
• But there are situations when one has to take a
small sample. E.g. if a new medicine is to be
introduced, a doctor cannot test the new medicine
by giving it to many patients.
• Thus he takes a small sample.
• Generally a sample having number of
observations less than or equal to 30 is regarded
as a small sample.
Difference between Large and Small sample
Sr. No. Large sample Small sample

1. The sample size is greater than 30. The sample size is 30 or less than 30

2. The value of a statistic obtain from The value of a statistic obtain from
the sample can be taken as an the sample can not be taken as an
estimate of the population estimate of the population
parameter. parameter.

3. Normal distribution is used for Sampling distribution like t, F etc. are

testing. used for testing.
Degree of freedom:

• Degree of freedom is the number of independent observations of the

variable.
• The number of independent observations is different for different
statistics.
• Suppose we are asked to select any five observation. There is no
restriction on the selection of these observations. Hence degree of
freedom is 5.
• Suppose we want to select five observations whose sum is 100. Here
four observations can be can be selected freely but the 5th
observation is automatically selected by the restriction of total 100.
• We are not free to select all the five observations but our freedom is
restricted to the selection of only 4 observations.
• Thus the degree of freedom for selecting n observation when one
such restriction is given is n-1.
• If two such restrictions are given the degree of freedom will be n-2.
• The degree of freedom associated with some
of the important statistics are given below:
(a) D.f .of x   xi is  n
n
 (x  x ) 2

(b) D. f .( S 2
)  i
 n 1
n
Student’s t-distribution:
• This is very important distribution was given by
W.S.Gosset in 1908.
• He published his work under the pen-name of student.
• Hence the distribution is known as student’s t
distribution.
• If x1, x2,…..,xn is a random sample of n observations
drawn from a normal population with mean μ and S.D.
σ then the distribution of
is defined as t distribution
x on n-1degree of freedom.
t 
s
n 1
• The probability density function of t
distribution is1
f (t)  2 n 1
'   t  
1 n t
n . ( , )(1  ) 2
2 2 n
Assumption of t-distribution:
1) The population from which the sample is drawn is
normal.
2) The sample is random.
3) The population S.D. σ is not known.

Properties of t-distribution:
1) The probability curve of t-distn. is symmetrical.
2) The tails of the curve are asymptotic to x-axis.
3) When n→ ∞, t-distn tends to normal distribution.
4) The form of the t-dist. Varies with the degrees of
freedom.
Uses of t-distribution:
1) For testing the significance of the difference
between sample mean and population mean.
2) For testing the difference between means of
two samples.
3) For testing significance of the observed
correlation co-efficient.
4) For testing the significance of observed
regression co-efficient.
 Student T Distribution with 1 degrees of freedom

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 Student T Distribution with 2 degrees of freedom

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 Student T Distribution with 3 degrees of freedom

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 Student T Distribution with 4 degrees of freedom

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 Student T Distribution with 5 degrees of freedom

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 Student T Distribution with 10 degrees of freedom

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 Student T Distribution with 20 degrees of freedom

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 Student T Distribution with 30 degrees of freedom

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 Student T Distribution with 40 degrees of freedom

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 Student T Distribution with 50 degrees of freedom

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 Student T Distribution with 100 degrees of freedom

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 (C) Application of T-test
(A) Test of Significance of a Mean of a Small Sample:
• Suppose a r.s. x1, x2,…..xn is drawn from a normal
population and the mean and variance of the sample are x-
bar and S2 respectively.
• If we want to test the hypothesis that there is no significant
difference between sample mean x-bar and assumed mean μ
of the population.
• We can apply t test in the following way:
Ho: population mean = μ
H1: population mean ≠ μ
x x n 1
t 
S S
n 1
• The D.f. associated with statistic t is n-1.
• The value of t is compared with the table value
of t on appropriate degree of freedom and at a
required level of significance.
• If tcal < ttab the Ho may be accepted.
• If tcal > ttab the Ho may be rejected.
 Examples:
1) A sample of 4 observations from a normal
population gave the following results: ∑ xi = 7
and ∑ xi2 = 15. Test the hypothesis that the mean
of the population is 2.
2) Ten individuals are chosen at random from a
population and their heights are found to be in
inches as: 63, 63, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 70, 71,
71. In the light of these data, test the hypothesis
that the mean height of the population is 66.
3) The following is a random sample obtained from
a normal population. Find 95% confidence limits
for the mean of the population.
65, 72, 68, 71, 77, 61, 63, 69, 73, 71
(4) For a sample of 9 observations the following
information is obtained. Find 99% C.I. for
population mean.

x  49,  (x i  x)  52.
2
(B) Test of Significance of difference between
Means of Two Small Samples:
• Suppose two independent small samples of
size n1 and n2 are drawn from two normal
populations and the means of the samples are
x1-bar and x2-bar respectively.
• Under the assumption that both the population
have the same variance.
x1  x2 x1  x2 n1n2
t  
1 1 S n1  n2
S 
n1 n2
• where
1
S 
2
{ (x i  x)   (x 2  x2 )
2 2

n1  n2  2

• t is based on n1+n2-2 degrees of freedom.

Examples:
(1) Two horses A and B were tested for running a particular
track. The time (in seconds) taken are given below:
Horse A 28 30 32 33 33 29 24

Horse B 29 30 30 24 27 29

can it be conclude that Horse A is faster than Horse B.

(2) Below are given the gain in weights (in lbs) of cows fed on
two diets X and Y. Test at 5% level whether the two diets
differ as regards their effects on mean increase in weight.
Diet X 25 32 30 32 24 14 32

Diet Y 24 34 22 30 42 31 40 30 32 35
(3) For two independent samples the following
information is available.
Sample Size Mean S.D
I 10 15 3.5
II 15 16.5 4.5

Test the hypothesis that population means are

equal.
Paired t test for difference of means:
• We use the paired t-test when there is one measurement
variable and two nominal variables. One of the nominal
variables has only two values. The most common design is that
one nominal variable represents different individuals, while
the other is "before" and "after" some treatment. Sometimes
the pairs are spatial rather than in order, such as left vs. right,
injured limb vs. uninjured limb, above a dam vs. below a dam,
etc.
• An example would be the performance of undergraduates on a
test of manual dexterity before and after drinking a cup of tea.
For each student, there would be two observations, one before
the tea and one after.
• Using a paired t-test has much more statistical
power when the difference between groups is
small relative to the variation within groups.
• The paired t-test is only appropriate when
there is just one observation for each
combination of the nominal values. For the tea
example, that would be one measurement of
dexterity on each student before drinking tea,
and one measurement after drinking tea.
Calculation:
• Under the hypothesis that there is no difference in
the population, t test can be applied in the
following way.
Ho: μ = 0 Vs. H1: μ ≠ 0

t
d n 1
whered 
 di 1
andS   (d i  d )
2 2

S n n
• The value of t is computed from the given data
and compared with the table value of n-1 degree
of freedom.
Examples:
1. The sales data of an item in six shops before and after
a special promotion campaign are as under:
shops A B C D E F
Before campaign 53 28 32 48 50 42
After campaign 58 32 30 50 56 45

Can the campaign be judged as success. Test at 5%

L.O.S.
2. A drug is given to 10 patients and the increments in
their blood pressure were recorded as
8, 3, 6, 10, 2, -2, 3, 0, -6, 1
Is it reasonable to believe that the drug has no effect on
change of B.P.?
 (D) Large Sample Test: (Z test)

 For testing a given hypothesis a random

sample is drawn from a population.
 If the number of units in the sample is greater
than 30, it is generally regarded as a large
sample.
Steps for testing a given hypothesis:
1. Starting clearly null and alternative hypothesis.
2. Finding out the difference between observed
value and the value taken in null hypothesis.
3. Calculate S.E. of statistic.
4. Computing the value of Z = difference/ S.E.
The computed value of Z is then compared with the
table value of Z at a rejected level of
significance and the decision regarding
acceptance or rejection of the null hypothesis is
taken.
Critical values at important level of significance
are given below.
1% 5% 10%
Two tailed test 2.58 1.96 1.645
One tailed test 2.33 1.645 1.282
(A)Test of significance of a mean:
 Suppose a r.s. of size n is drawn from a large
population.
 Suppose the mean of the sample is (x-bar).
 If we want to test the hypothesis that
population mean is μ0 i.e.H0 : μ = μ0
(i) H0 : μ = μ0 ; H1 : μ ≠ μ0
(ii) Difference = │(x-bar) - μ0│
(iii) S.E. of (x-bar) = σ / √n
(iv) Z = difference / S.E.
Examples:
1) A sample of 400 students have a mean height of
171.38 cms. Can it be reasonably regarded as a
random sample from a large population with mean
height 171.17 and standard deviation 3.3 cms.?
2) A stenographer claims that he can write at an
average speed of 120 words per minute. In 100
trials he obtained an average speed of 116 words
per minute with a S.D. of 15 words. Is the claim
justified? Use 5% l.o.s.
3) A random sample of 400 items gave mean 4.5 and
variance 4. can the sample be regarded as drawn
from a normal population with mean 4?
(B) Test of Significance of difference between two
means:
 Suppose two independent random samples are
drawn from two different populations and their
means are respectively x1-bar and x2-bar.
 If we want to test the hypothesis that the
population means are equal i.e. H0: μ1 = μ2, we
can follow the following steps:
(i) H0: μ1 = μ2, H1: μ1 ≠ μ2,
(ii) Difference = x1  x2
 12  2 2
(iii) S.E. of (x1bar - x2bar) = 
n1 n2
(iv) Z = difference / S.E.
Examples:
(1) The average life of 150 electric bulbs of a company A is
1400 hrs with a S.D. of 120 hrs while the average life of
200 electric bulbs of company B is 1200 hrs. with a S.D.
of 80 hrs. Is the difference between the average lives of
the bulbs significant?
(2) The mean of a random sample of 1000 units is 17.6 and
the mean of another random sample of 800 units is 18.
can it be conclude that both the samples come from the
same population with S.D. = 2.6.
(3) The average daily wage of 1000 laborers‘ of a factory A
is Rs.47 with S.D. of Rs. 28. The average daily wage of
1500 laborers‘ of a factory B is Rs.49 with S.D. of Rs. 40.
can it be said that the average daily wage of factory B is
more than the average daily wage of factory A?
(c) Test of Significance of difference between
Two Standard Deviations:
 If we want to test that the standard deviations
of two populations are not differ significantly.
(1) H0: σ1 = σ2, H1: σ1 ≠ σ2,
(ii) Difference = S1 – S2 = difference between
sample standard deviations
(iii) S.E. of (S1 – S2 ) =  2
 2
1
 2
2n1 2n2
(iv) Z = difference / S.E.
Examples:

(1) The information regarding marks of boys and girls of a

college is given below:
Sample Mean S.D. Sample Size
Boys 83 10 121
Girls 81 12 81
Test whether the difference in standard deviation is significant.

(2)From the following data, test whether the difference

between standard deviations is significant or not?
S.D. Size
Sample-I 53.83 1390
Sample-II 56.56 630