8.1 Quick revision

  1. True or false: Hypothesis tests are used to prove or disprove the null hypothesis.
  2. True or false: Hypothesis are always written in terms of population parameters.
  3. True or false: Alternative hypotheses may be one- or two-tailed, depending on the data.
  4. True or false: Hypotheses should be constructed without any knowledge of the data.
  5. True or false: The sampling distribution shows how the values of the sample statistic are likely to vary from sample to sample (when the null hypothesis is true).