Probability
Hypothesis Tests
Formulas
Experiments and observational studies
Calculator inputs
100

Resulting combination of outcomes

What is an event?

100

How you know to reject the null hypothesis

What is a p-value below the alpha

100

sqrt. of (pq/n)

What is the standard deviation of the sample proportion?

100

retrospective and prospective studies

What are the two types of observational studies?

100

invnorm(1+c/2)

What is the z*?

200

# of outcomes in A/ # of possible outcomes

What is the probability of A?

200

mistakenly rejecting the null hypothesis, when the null is true

What is a type I error?

200

subtract the end points of the confidence interval and divide by 2 

What is the margin of error?

200
Used in order to avoid bias resulting from knowing what treatment was assigned

What is blinding?

200

bionomcdf/pdf(number of trials, probability of success, number of successes)

What is the formula for the binomial model?

300

Events that have no outcomes in common, cannot occur together

What is the mutually exclusive?

300

increase the power of the test

What is increasing alpha and/or the sample size?

300

statistic ± (critical value x standard deviation of test statistic)

What is a confidence interval?

300

Proves a cause and effect relationship

What is an experiment?

300

geometpdf/cdf(probability, number of successes)

What is the geometric probability model?

400

You roll a fair die three times. What is the probability that you Roll all 6's?

What is 0.0046?

400

straight enough, randomization condition, equal variance, nearly normal

what is conditions for a test of linearity?

400

(z*s/E)2

What is the formula for n?

400

Cannot separate out the effects of one factor from the effects of the other factor

What are confounded variables?

400

invT(1+C/2, df)

What is the critical value of t?

500

You roll a fair die three times. What is the probability that the numbers you roll are not all 5's?

What is 0.995?

500

categorical data, independence and randomization conditions, sample size assumption, expected cell frequency condition: all cells must be greater than 5

What is a conditions for a chi squared goodness of fit test

500

(statistic-parameter)/standard deviation of statistic 

What is the standardized test statistic?

500


             group1-------control------treatment

random                                                       compare

allocation

             group 2-------treatment-----control

What is a matched pairs experiment?

500

tcdf(lower, upper, df)

What is the p-value for t?