• Designing a study

Example: designing a study to determine if the males at a particular school watch more television than the females at that school, generating the appropriate descriptive statistics, and testing the hypothesis

• Critiquing the appropriateness of the instrument used in a study
• Using z-scores in a study
• Using a t-test, when appropriate, to test a hypothesis

Lesson on hypothesis testing
This lesson is intended to help students visualize and understand the results of hypothesis tests.

Introduction to Descriptive Statistics
This is a pretty thorough walk-through of descriptive statistics with some real-life examples.

Hypothesis Testing: Top Ten Singles
Students will review and better understand hypothesis testing and evaluation of probability distributions.

Hypothesis Testing and Graphing Data: Word Usage in Hip-Hop Lyrics
Students will research data online, formulate a hypothesis to test and use Excel input and graph the data

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