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Hypothesis Testing | A Step-by-Step Guide with Easy Examples

Published on November 8, 2019 by Rebecca Bevans . Revised on June 22, 2023.

Hypothesis testing is a formal procedure for investigating our ideas about the world using statistics . It is most often used by scientists to test specific predictions, called hypotheses, that arise from theories.

There are 5 main steps in hypothesis testing:

• State your research hypothesis as a null hypothesis and alternate hypothesis (H o ) and (H a  or H 1 ).
• Collect data in a way designed to test the hypothesis.
• Perform an appropriate statistical test .
• Decide whether to reject or fail to reject your null hypothesis.
• Present the findings in your results and discussion section.

Though the specific details might vary, the procedure you will use when testing a hypothesis will always follow some version of these steps.

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Step 1: state your null and alternate hypothesis, step 2: collect data, step 3: perform a statistical test, step 4: decide whether to reject or fail to reject your null hypothesis, step 5: present your findings, other interesting articles, frequently asked questions about hypothesis testing.

After developing your initial research hypothesis (the prediction that you want to investigate), it is important to restate it as a null (H o ) and alternate (H a ) hypothesis so that you can test it mathematically.

The alternate hypothesis is usually your initial hypothesis that predicts a relationship between variables. The null hypothesis is a prediction of no relationship between the variables you are interested in.

• H 0 : Men are, on average, not taller than women. H a : Men are, on average, taller than women.

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For a statistical test to be valid , it is important to perform sampling and collect data in a way that is designed to test your hypothesis. If your data are not representative, then you cannot make statistical inferences about the population you are interested in.

There are a variety of statistical tests available, but they are all based on the comparison of within-group variance (how spread out the data is within a category) versus between-group variance (how different the categories are from one another).

If the between-group variance is large enough that there is little or no overlap between groups, then your statistical test will reflect that by showing a low p -value . This means it is unlikely that the differences between these groups came about by chance.

Alternatively, if there is high within-group variance and low between-group variance, then your statistical test will reflect that with a high p -value. This means it is likely that any difference you measure between groups is due to chance.

Your choice of statistical test will be based on the type of variables and the level of measurement of your collected data .

• an estimate of the difference in average height between the two groups.
• a p -value showing how likely you are to see this difference if the null hypothesis of no difference is true.

Based on the outcome of your statistical test, you will have to decide whether to reject or fail to reject your null hypothesis.

In most cases you will use the p -value generated by your statistical test to guide your decision. And in most cases, your predetermined level of significance for rejecting the null hypothesis will be 0.05 – that is, when there is a less than 5% chance that you would see these results if the null hypothesis were true.

In some cases, researchers choose a more conservative level of significance, such as 0.01 (1%). This minimizes the risk of incorrectly rejecting the null hypothesis ( Type I error ).

The results of hypothesis testing will be presented in the results and discussion sections of your research paper , dissertation or thesis .

In the results section you should give a brief summary of the data and a summary of the results of your statistical test (for example, the estimated difference between group means and associated p -value). In the discussion , you can discuss whether your initial hypothesis was supported by your results or not.

In the formal language of hypothesis testing, we talk about rejecting or failing to reject the null hypothesis. You will probably be asked to do this in your statistics assignments.

However, when presenting research results in academic papers we rarely talk this way. Instead, we go back to our alternate hypothesis (in this case, the hypothesis that men are on average taller than women) and state whether the result of our test did or did not support the alternate hypothesis.

If your null hypothesis was rejected, this result is interpreted as “supported the alternate hypothesis.”

These are superficial differences; you can see that they mean the same thing.

You might notice that we don’t say that we reject or fail to reject the alternate hypothesis . This is because hypothesis testing is not designed to prove or disprove anything. It is only designed to test whether a pattern we measure could have arisen spuriously, or by chance.

If we reject the null hypothesis based on our research (i.e., we find that it is unlikely that the pattern arose by chance), then we can say our test lends support to our hypothesis . But if the pattern does not pass our decision rule, meaning that it could have arisen by chance, then we say the test is inconsistent with our hypothesis .

If you want to know more about statistics , methodology , or research bias , make sure to check out some of our other articles with explanations and examples.

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Hypothesis testing is a formal procedure for investigating our ideas about the world using statistics. It is used by scientists to test specific predictions, called hypotheses , by calculating how likely it is that a pattern or relationship between variables could have arisen by chance.

A hypothesis states your predictions about what your research will find. It is a tentative answer to your research question that has not yet been tested. For some research projects, you might have to write several hypotheses that address different aspects of your research question.

A hypothesis is not just a guess — it should be based on existing theories and knowledge. It also has to be testable, which means you can support or refute it through scientific research methods (such as experiments, observations and statistical analysis of data).

Null and alternative hypotheses are used in statistical hypothesis testing . The null hypothesis of a test always predicts no effect or no relationship between variables, while the alternative hypothesis states your research prediction of an effect or relationship.

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Hypothesis Testing

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Hypothesis Testing. LIR 832 Lecture #3 January 30, 2007. Topics of the Day. A. Our Fundamental Problem Again: Learning About Populations from Samples B. Basic Hypothesis Testing: One Tailed Tests Using a Z Statistic C. Probability and Critical Cutoff Approaches: Really the Same Thing

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Hypothesis Testing LIR 832 Lecture #3 January 30, 2007

Topics of the Day • A. Our Fundamental Problem Again: Learning About Populations from Samples • B. Basic Hypothesis Testing: One Tailed Tests Using a Z Statistic • C. Probability and Critical Cutoff Approaches: Really the Same Thing • D. How do we do hypothesis tests on small samples (n = 30 or less). • E. How do we do hypothesis testing when we have information on population standard deviation? On sample standard deviations? • F. How do we test a statement such as (two tailed test)? • G. How do we test for differences in means of two populations?

Hypothesis Testing • Fundamental Problem: We want to know about a population which is not observed and want to use a sample to learn about the population. Our problem is that sampling variability makes sample an inexact estimator of the population. We need to come up with a method to learn about the population from samples which allows for sampling variability.

Hypothesis Testing: Example • We are considering implementing a training program which purports to improve quality and reduce the number of defects. Currently, 10 out of every 1000 parts produced are not within spec. The standard deviation of defects is 8 parts (variance is 64). The typical employee produces 1,000 parts per day • The program costs $1,000 per employee and we have 10,000 production employees. We are unwilling to spend $10,000,000 for a pig in the poke. • Instead we decide to run a pilot on 100 employees to determine whether the program is effective for our employees. The firm that does the training will do the program for free, so our only cost is lost production for the time during which employees are trained. Note that the 100 employees are a pilot or, in our terminology, a sample.

Hypothesis Testing: Example • Employees are sent to the program and then given several days under instruction to apply what they have learned to their work. We run a one day test on the employees and find that they average 8 parts per thousand. • Defects are down, but is this really an improvement or is it simply the result of sampling variation? Could we be reasonably certain if we trained a second group of employees, or ran this same test next week, that defects would also be down?

Hypothesis Testing: Example • Abstractly, we are faced with the problem of distinguishing whether the program is effective or whether the improvement is reasonably explained by sampling variation (aka luck).

Hypothesis Testing: Example • Let’s approach this as a statistical problem. We know that historically there have been 10 defects per 1000 with standard deviation of 8. So our question is, “How likely is it that we have pulled a sample of 100 employees with a mean defect rate of 8 if, in fact, the training program did not work (in other words, that the population rate of defects remains 10 per 1000)?

Hypothesis Testing: Example • You can set this problem up as you have been already: • As the sample is larger than 30, we can use our z-table. The P(z<2.5) = 0.62%, very small. There is so small a likelihood that the sample we have observed was drawn from a population with a mean of 10 that we reject the possibility that the training program was ineffective.

Hypothesis Testing: Example • What do I mean when I say that the probability is 0.62%? Two possible interpretations: • 1. Suppose we set up a population with a mean of 10 and a standard deviation of 8 and draw samples of 100 from that population. Now imagine repeating this experiment 1000 times. We would expect that slightly over 6 of those samples would have a value of 8 or less. • 2. Alternatively, if the population had a mean of 10, standard deviation of 8, we would expect that 0.62% of the time we would draw a sample values 8 or less by chance. • I find the first approach makes it easier to understand what I mean when I say there is a 0.62% probability that an event occurred by chance, but you may prefer the second.

Hypothesis Testing: Example • Thinking about this graphically: • Two extreme possibilities: • 1. Training did little or nothing • 2. The training was highly effective (really useful in Thomas the Tank Engine terminology)

Hypothesis Testing: Example • If the training did nothing, we would expect the distribution of defects post training to look a lot like the distribution of defects prior to training.

Hypothesis Testing: Example So we can use the old distribution as a standard against which to judge our sample results. If the sample looks a lot like the old distribution it would be reasonable to believe that the training did not work. 1. For convenience, we add cut points at ± 2 standard deviations (1.6 = 2* .8)

Hypothesis Testing: Example • When we pull our sample, we calculate a mean and compare it to the old distribution. So, for example, our sample returns a value of 8. This lies to the left of the low cut point and we conclude it is very unlikely that the training did nothing.

Hypothesis Testing: Example • Let’s go behind the graphs to the underlying, if unobserved population.

Hypothesis Testing: Example

Hypothesis Testing: Formalizing the Steps • Step 1: State our beliefs about the world clearly (hypotheses). • Example: The consulting firms contention is that their training program reduces defect rates. Another possibility is that the training program is ineffective and that any changes in defect rates are simply the result of sampling variability (randomness)

Hypothesis Testing: Formalizing the Steps • Step 2: Formalize this into the alternative and null hypothesis: • Alternative: HA μpost training < 10: the the training program is effective • Null: HO μpost training ≥10: the training program has no effect on defect rates.

Hypothesis Testing: Formalizing the Steps • More about Step 2: • The two hypotheses are about the unobserved population. We will use samples to test these two hypotheses • Together, the null and alternative cover all possible outcomes. • The null is about change being the result of sampling variability, not the result of systematic difference. So our null for the training program is that it is not effective. Our alternative is that the program has a positive effect. • We always test to determine whether the null is reasonable (is sufficiently likely that we are unwilling to conclude it is false).

Hypothesis Testing: Formalizing the Steps • Step 3: Set up the probability problem: • The sign of the test is taken from the alternative hypothesis. We ask, how likely are we to observe this extreme an outcome if, indeed, the null is true.

Hypothesis Testing: Formalizing the Steps • Step 4: Solve the Probability Problem: • Note that our standard deviation is the root of the population variance divided by sample size. This is the second part of the Central Limit Theorem and provides the predictive power to use of sample means in hypothesis testing. • The result of doing the test is a probability of the null being true given the sample outcome. If that probability is sufficiently small, we conclude the null is not reasonable.

Hypothesis Testing: Formalizing the Steps • Step 5: Decide whether the probability of the null being true, given the sample outcome, is sufficiently low to allow you to reject (not believe) the null. • The 0.62% likelihood is the probability that a population with a mean of 10 and a standard deviation of 8 would produce a sample of 100 observations with a mean of 8. It is very unlikely and we may well decide the null isn’t realistic.

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Hypothesis Testing: Example • A second example: We are considering the absence behavior of a new group of workers and wish to determine if it is different from the behavior of our typical company employee. • The company has hired a large group of human resource managers over the last three years. They are well versed in corporate policy and, as they do many of the unpleasant tasks in the firm, tend to have high stress levels. The Vice President of Human Resources has remarked that she is concerned about their stress levels and believes that our new HR managers they are taking more days off than most employees to compensation for their problems. • We collect data on the 225 HR managers in the firm. We find they average 24 days of sick leave annually. The average managers in the firm has taken 22 days of sick leave annually over the last ten years. The standard deviation for the pool of typical managers is 30 days. Is our VP correct that our HR managers take more sick leave than other managers?

Hypothesis Testing: Example • Step 1: State our views of the world. • One view is that HR managers are taking more days of sick leave than has been typical of other managers. • Another is that they are, as a group, no different than other managers.

Hypothesis Testing: Example • Step 2: Formalize the hypotheses we are testing. • Let μd be the population mean days off for the population of HR managers: • H0: Null: HR managers are not different: • (NOTE: the null is about the population mean, not the sample) • μ ≤22 • HA: Alternative: HR managers take more sick time than other managers • (Similarly, the alternative is about the population) • μ > 22

Hypothesis Testing: Example • Step 3: Set up the probability problem. • Note that our sample is 225, so we have central limit theorem results and can use a z distribution.

Hypothesis Testing: Example • Step 4: Solve the probability problem.

Hypothesis Testing: Example • Step 5: Determine whether the likelihood is sufficiently small to reject the null. • Our calculations indicate that there is a 15.87 percent likelihood that a population with a mean of 22 would produce a sample of 225 individuals with a mean of 24. So, we would expect a sample of the type we got in about 1 in 6 experiments when HR managers were no different than other managers. That type of outcome just isn’t too unlikely.

Hypothesis Testing: Example • There are, again, two ways of interpreting this result: • 1. (Repeat experiment approach) If we ran 100 experiments in which we pulled random samples of 225 from a population in which the mean of 22 and a standard deviation of 30, between 15 and 16 of those samples would have a mean of 24 or greater. • 2. (Probability approach) Alternatively, 15.87% of the time when we pull a sample of 225 from a population with a mean of 22 and standard deviation of 30, the mean will be 24 or greater.

Hypothesis Testing • Now consider what we are doing abstractly… • A little background. Employers are often very interested in employees views of their work and firm. There are many ways of measuring employee attitudes, a common method used in survey research are Likert scaled questions. For example, we might ask a question such as: • How would you rate this job? Would you rate it as • 1 - very bad 2 - bad 3 - good 4 - very good

Hypothesis Testing • A Somewhat Cranky Aside: • The response to this question is numeric, we get a number between 1 and 4, but it is ordinal data. We know the ordering of the response, a response of very good is stronger than a response of good; similarly a response of bad is weaker than a response of good.; but there is no arithmetic relationship between the responses. Two responses of “very bad” are not equal to one response of “bad”. Indeed, we cannot even be sure that the responses are equally spaced. The person who responds “bad” may be mildly unhappy relative to someone who responds good; but the person who responds “very bad” could be somewhat more unhappy than the “bad” or they could just about ready to “go postal”. Still the data is ordered. • Despite this limitation, it is common practice in behavior sciences to add the responses to form a mean response.

Hypothesis Testing • Back to our problem: • 1. We begin with a “theory” or observation about the population. These are typically a general statements such as: • a. Employees on evening or night shifts are less satisfied with their work than other workers. • 2. Implicit in this statement is its opposite, the null hypothesis. This is what we are going to test • b. Null: Employees on evening or night shifts are no less satisfied with their work than employees on the day shift.

Hypothesis Testing • 3. We turn these statements into operational hypotheses, statements which can be tested statistically. • c. We have been surveying employees for many years using Likert scaled surveys. We know from these surveys that day shift employees rate the firm as good (3) on a four point Likert scale(very bad, bad, good, very good). Standard deviation is also 3. Our null and alternative would be: • H0: Null: μevening or night ≥3 • HA: Alternative: μevening or night <3 • Note: The null and alternative exhaust all possibilities, no other outcome is possible.

Hypothesis Testing • 4. We pull a sample and test to determine the probability that the sample came from the population with the characteristics of the null. • Suppose we pull a sample of 36 night employees with a sample mean of 2.3 • We ask: • What is the probability of pulling this particular sample if the mean response of our night shift employees really is 3.0 or greater? • P(x-bar < 2.3 if μnight really ≥3) or P(x-bar < 2.3 | μnight ≥3)? • Note: the sign in the statement is taken from the alternative hypothesis.

Hypothesis Testing • 5. We then calculate that probability:

Hypothesis Testing • 6. What does this 8.08% mean: • 1. Suppose we had a population with a mean value of 3 and standard deviation of 3 (this is exactly the population we build our null hypotheses around). Then suppose we ran an experiment in which we drew 36 individuals at random from that population and repeated the experiment 100 times. We would expect that 8.0 of those samples would have a mean of 2.3 or less! • 2. If our population has a mean and standard deviation of 3.0, we would expect that 8.08% of the time we would draw a sample of 36 individuals with a mean of 2.3 or less.

Hypothesis Testing • Criteria for rejecting or not rejecting the null: • We reject the null if it is sufficiently unlikely that the sample would be produced by the “null” population by chance. • We do not reject the null if the probability that the observed sample was pulled from the null population is reasonably large. • So our logic is that we only believe our alternative if the probability of the reverse (the null) is very low. • We have not established how low one has to go (how low the probability has to be) before one rejects the null. We are getting to this.

Hypothesis Testing: Example • We are told by a consultant that their program will, by making workers more aware of the effects of their absence, reduce the use of sick leave and personal leave. We have no reason to disbelieve her, but given the price of the program $2,500 per employee, we want to run a pilot on 50 employees before taking it to the entire population of employees. Reviewing our records, we find that, on average, employees take 10 days of sick leave and personal leave a year. The standard deviation in leave time is 8.5 days per year.

Hypothesis Testing: Example • Set up the null and alternative and test this problem. • 1. Let’s define μ as the number of absences due to sick leave or personal days. • 2. What is the null and alternative? • 3. You run the pilot and find that the mean number of sick and personal days taken was 8.7. Set up the hypothesis test. • 4. What is the z score from this test? What is the probability? • 5. Do you reject the null? Explain.

Graphical Example • We use an examination for testing new employees. We need to calibrate our criteria for passing this test to the performance of our current employees with whom we are very satisfied). • The typical standard for hiring a person who has taken this test is a score of person hired after taking this test scores 500. We believe that our employees are superior and that, if we gave this test to our current employees, the mean of the test would be more than 500. The company which designs the test cannot help us directly as, although they know the typical performance of a test taker, they do not know the typical performance of our employees. They however, agree to administer the test to a sample of 24 of our employees. We are interested in using this sample to test the hypothesis that the mean score for our employees would be more than 500. The standard deviation of the sample, after allowing for sample size, is 4. Once we know this result, we can decide whether we can default to the typical performance standard or need to more closely determine our employees performance.

Graphical Example • Suppose we want to test our belief about the population and are willing to be wrong by chance about 5% of the time. We know that 5% of the area of a normal is 1.645 standard deviations above the means, so we set up an upper cut point at +1.645 standard deviations (which is 506.58 = 1.645*4+ 500). What does this look like graphically? • What does this test look like?

Graphical Example • Note that the limits for accepting the null are set around the hypothesized population

Graphical Example

Establishing Cut Points • Establishing the Appropriate Cut-offs for rejecting the null hypothesis. • To this point, we have produced p-values from our hypothesis tests and then tried to judge whether a null was sufficiently unlikely that we were willing to reject it. • A more conventional approach is it use 10%, 5% and 1% as the standards

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