Hypothesis Tests & Statistical Models

Steven P. Millard
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Chapter Chapter 8 in EnvironmentalStats for S-Plus, 1998, pp 215-241 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The heart of classical statistics is hypothesis tests. If you are comparing chemical concentrations between a “background” area and a “potentially contaminated” area, how different do the concentrations in these two areas have to be before you decide that the “potentially contaminated” area is in fact contaminated?

Keywords: Hypothesis Test; Test Statistic Parameter; Fitted Normal Distribution; Linear Rank Test; True Underlying Model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-0460-9_9

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