Data analysis: hypothesis testing
Who is this course for?
Introductory level - no prior knowledge needed
What will I learn?
In this free course, you will study the principles of hypothesis testing, including the specification of significance levels, as well as one-sided and two-sided tests. Finally, you will learn how to perform a hypothesis test of the mean of a variable, as well as the proportion of individuals in a dataset with a certain characteristic.
After studying this course, you should be able to:
- understand the principle of hypothesis testing
- understand the idea of alpha in hypothesis testing
- differentiate between one-tailed and two-tailed tests
- understand hypothesis testing of means and proportions
- report the exact p-value of a test.
Skills tags:
- data
- data analysis
- spreadsheets