Hypothesis Testing (Week 6): Based on your sample, you will conduct a hypothesis test with to test two of the claims of the above article.
Using the same excel sheet as last week, answer the following in the “week 6” tab:
· Claim: the average age of online students is 32 years old. Can you prove it is not?
o What is the null hypothesis?
o What is the alternative hypothesis?
o What distribution should be used?
o What is the test statistic?
o What is the p-value?
o What is the conclusion?
o How do we interpret the results, in context of our study?
· Claim: the proportion of males in online classes is 35%. Can you prove it is not?
o What is the null hypothesis?
o What is the alternative hypothesis?
o What distribution should be used?
o What is the test statistic?
o What is the p-value?
o What is the conclusion?
o How do we interpret the results, in context of our study?
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Brief summary of the article, including the source
§ Link for article: https://www.usnews.com/higher-education/online-education/articles/2017-04-04/us-news-data-the-average-online-bachelors-student
