Penn State Department of Statistics

Statistical Education Resource Kit

Hypothesis Testing: Proportions

Videos

  • Against All Odds: Inside Statistics Video 23:  Inference for Proportions.  How do federal government statisticians estimate how many people are unemployed?  What size sample can give accurate results?  Discover confidence intervals and tests for single proportion and for comparing proportions based on paired and independent samples.  (28:51 mins.)  Video available in Main Office and from Penn State AVS.
  • Against All Odds: Inside Statistics Video 24:  Inference for Two-Way Tables.  A two-way table can show the relationship between two categorical variables in a single population or compare the distributions of a single categorical variable in several populations.  The chi-square test for independence/equal distributions in two-way tables is covered.  (28:52 mins.)  Video available in Main Office and from Penn State AVS.

 

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