Sean is thinking about creating an automatic cat feeder similar to one that he created for dogs. He believes that cats eat several times a day. He also believes that cats can be trained to come to the sound of a slight ding, indicating that a new tray of food has been opened. He has several friends set out small trays of food, sounding a ding to see if cats will associate the sound with curiosity about the food. This action is called
The use of statistics to assess the probability of a given assumption being accurate is hypothesis testing. The typical hypothesis testing process is made up of four stages.
Establish the hypothesis null.
Recognize a test metrics which can be used to determine the null hypothesis truth.
Calculate the P-value, that is the likelihood that if the null hypothesis is true, a test result would be obtained at least as large as the one observed.
Measure the p-value with an appropriate alpha value.
