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Hypothesis Test (z-test)

Is that difference real or just luck? A hypothesis test measures how surprising your sample is under the null, and the p-value puts a number on it.

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A hypothesis test asks whether a sample mean is far enough from the null value to be surprising by chance alone. The test statistic z measures that distance in standard errors; if it falls in the red rejection region (p below 0.05) we reject the null. Larger samples shrink the standard error and sharpen the test.

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Standard error1.265
z-statistic1.581
p-value0.1138
Decisionfail to reject

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Reading this result: The statistic sits in the white central zone, so the gap between x̄ and μ₀ is within ordinary sampling noise and you fail to reject H₀.

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A one-sample z-test compares a sample mean to a hypothesized value, measuring the gap in standard errors. If the test statistic lands in the rejection region — a p-value below the significance level — the null hypothesis is rejected. Larger samples shrink the standard error and make smaller effects detectable.

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