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Assignment #2
Chapter 3: 17, 21 Chapter 4: 18, 20 Due This Friday Oct. 2nd by 2pm in your TA’s homework box
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Assignment #1
Chapter 1: 14, 17, 19, 20 Chapter 2: 25, 32 Answers are now posted on the webpage Late assignments (even 1 min.) will not be accepted
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Assignment #3
Chapter 5: 28, 36, 37 Chapter 6: 16, 18, 19 Due next Friday Oct. 9th by 2pm in your TA’s homework box
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Reading
For Today: Chapter 6 For Thursday: Chapter 7
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Chapter 5 Review The probability of an event is its true relative frequency; the proportion of times the event would occur if we repeated the same process over and over again. A probability distribution describes the true relative frequency (a.k.a. the probability) of all possible values of a random variable.
Sum of two dice
Probability
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Chapter 5 Review
The probability of A OR B involves addition If the two are mutually exclusive:
Pr(A or B) = Pr(A) + Pr(B) If the two are not mutually exclusive: Pr(A or B) = Pr(A) + Pr(B) – Pr(A and B)
The probability of A AND B involves multiplication
If the two are independent Pr(A and B) = Pr(A) Pr(B)
If the two are dependent Pr(A and B) = Pr(A) Pr(B|A)
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Chapter 5 Review Mutually Exclusive Not Mutually Exclusive
Independent Not possible First draw is king (put card back) OR Second draw is king 4/52 + 4/52 – (4/52*4/52) = 0.15 First draw is king (put card back) AND Second draw is king 4/52 * 4/52 = 0.006
Dependent First draw is ace of hearts OR Second draw is ace of hearts (1/52) + (51/52 * 1/51) = 0.04 First draw is ace of hearts AND Second draw is ace of hearts 1/52 * 0 = 0
First draw is king OR Second draw is king 4/52 + ((48/52 * 4/51) + (4/52 * 3/51)) – (4/52 * 3/51) First draw is king AND Second draw is king 4/52 * 3/51
Two consecutive draws from the same deck of cards
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Chapter 5 Review • The conditional probability of an event is the
probability of that event occurring given that a condition is met.
• Law of total probability:
• Bayes theorem:
Pr A[ ] = Pr A | B[ ]All valuesof B∑ Pr B[ ]
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Pr A |B[ ] =Pr B |A[ ]Pr[A]
Pr[B]
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Hypothesis testing
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Hypothesis testing compares data to what we would expect to see if a specific null hypothesis were true. If the data are too unusual, compared to what we would expect to see if the null hypothesis were true, then the null hypothesis is rejected.
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So we imagine making an infinite number of samples,
from a distribution where men and women have the same
height.
Hypothesis testing in a nutshell
PopulationWe want to know somethingabout this population, say, are men and women the same height, on average?
We can't measure everyone- it would take too long and cost too much. So we take a sample, and meaure those. For these we estimate the difference between men and women's mean height.
Sample
But we have a problem: The sample doesn't have the sameproperties as the population,because of chance errors.
So we need to know how good the sample is, and how likely it is that it is much different from the population.
We make an estimate from each of these samples, and from these we can calculate the sampling distribution of the estimate.
Freq
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Difference in mean height
If the actual sample value is so different from what we would expect samples to look like, then we can say that the men in this population are on average taller than the women.
Freq
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Difference in mean height
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So we imagine making an infinite number of samples,
from a distribution where men and women have the same
height.
Hypothesis testing in a nutshell
PopulationWe want to know somethingabout this population, say, are men and women the same height, on average?
We can't measure everyone- it would take too long and cost too much. So we take a sample, and meaure those. For these we estimate the difference between men and women's mean height.
Sample
But we have a problem: The sample doesn't have the sameproperties as the population,because of chance errors.
So we need to know how good the sample is, and how likely it is that it is much different from the population.
We make an estimate from each of these samples, and from these we can calculate the sampling distribution of the estimate.
Freq
uenc
y
Difference in mean height
If the actual sample value is so different from what we would expect samples to look like, then we can say that the men in this population are on average taller than the women.
Freq
uenc
y
Difference in mean height
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Hypotheses are about populations, but are tested
with data from samples
Hypothesis testing usually assumes that sampling is random.
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Null hypothesis (Ho): a specific statement about a population parameter made for the purposes of argument. Alternate hypothesis (HA): represents all other possible parameter values except that stated in the null hypothesis.
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The null hypothesis is usually the simplest statement, whereas the alternative hypothesis is usually the
statement of greatest interest.
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A good null hypothesis would be interesting if proven wrong.
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A null hypothesis is specific; an alternate hypothesis is not.
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A test statistic is a number calculated from the data that is used to evaluate how compatible the data are with the result expected
under the null hypothesis
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Null distribution: the sampling distribution of outcomes for a test statistic under the assumption that the null hypothesis is true
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P-value
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A P-value is the probability of getting the data, or something as or more unusual, if the null hypothesis were true.
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Hypothesis testing: an example
Does a red shirt help win wrestling?
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The experiment and the results
• Animals use red as a sign of aggression
• Does red influence the outcome of wrestling, taekwondo, and boxing?
– 16 of 20 rounds had more red-shirted than blue-shirted winners in these sports in the 2004 Olympics
– Shirt color was randomly assigned
Hill, RA, and RA Burton 2005. Red enhances human performance in contests Nature 435:293.
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Stating the hypotheses
H0: Red- and blue-shirted athletes are equally likely to win (proportion = 0.5).
HA: Red- and blue-shirted athletes
are not equally likely to win (proportion ≠ 0.5).
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Estimating the value
• 16 of 20 is a proportion, proportion = 0.8
• This is a discrepancy of 0.3 from the proportion proposed by the null hypothesis, proportion = 0.5
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Is this discrepancy by chance alone?:
Estimating the probability of such an extreme result
We use the null distribution to estimate the probability of getting the data, or
something as or more unusual, if the null hypothesis were true (i.e. to get the P-
value for our test statistic)
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The null distribution of the sample proportion
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Calculating the P-value from the null distribution
The P-value is calculated as
P = 2 × [Pr(16) + Pr(17) + Pr(18) + Pr(19) + Pr(20)] = 0.012.
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Statistical significance
The significance level, α, is a probability used as a criterion for rejecting the null hypothesis. If the P-value for a test is less than or equal to α, then the null hypothesis is rejected.
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α is often 0.05
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Significance for the red shirt example
• P = 0.012
• P < α, so we can reject the null hypothesis
• Athletes in red shirts were more likely to win.
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Larger samples give more information
• A larger sample will tend to give and estimate with a smaller confidence interval
• A larger sample will give more power to reject a false null hypothesis
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Hypothesis testing: another example Do dogs resemble their owners?
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Common wisdom holds that dogs resemble their owners. Is this true?
• 41 dog owners approached in parks; photos taken of dog and owner separately
• Photos of owner and dog, along with a photo of another dog, shown to students to match
Roy, M.M., & Christenfeld, N.J.S. (2004). Do dogs resemble their owners? Psychological Science, 15, 361–363
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Hypotheses
H0: The proportion of correct matches is proportion = 0.5.
HA: The proportion of correct matches is different from proportion = 0.5.
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Data
Of 41 matches, 23 were correct and 18 were incorrect.
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Estimating the proportion
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sample proportion =2341
= 0.56
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Null distribution for dog/owner resemblance
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P = 0.53.
The P-value:
We do not reject the null hypothesis that dogs do not resemble their owners.
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Jargon
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Significance level
• The acceptable probability of rejecting a true null hypothesis
• Called α
• For many purposes, α = 0.05 is acceptable
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“Statistically significant”
• P < α
• We can “reject the null hypothesis”
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We never “accept the null hypothesis”
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Type I error
• Rejecting a true null hypothesis
• Probability of Type I error is α (the significance level)
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Type II error
• Not rejecting a false null hypothesis
• The probability of a Type II error is β.
• The smaller β, the more power a test has.
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Power
• The ability of a test to reject a false null hypothesis
• Power = 1- β
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One- and two-tailed tests
• Most tests are two-tailed tests.
• This means that a deviation in either direction would reject the null hypothesis.
• Normally α is divided into α/2 on one side and α/2 on the other.
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Test statistic
2.5% 2.5%
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One-tailed tests
• Only used when the other tail is nonsensical
• For example, comparing grades on a multiple choice test to that expected by random guessing
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Test Statistic
• A number calculated to represent the match between a set of data and the null hypothesis
• Can be compared to a general distribution to infer probability
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Critical value
• The value of a test statistic beyond which the null hypothesis can be rejected
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Correlation does not automatically imply causation
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Correlation does not automatically imply causation
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Life expectancy by country:
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Confounding variable
An unmeasured variable that may be cause both X and Y"
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Observations vs. Experiments
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Statistical significance ≠ Biological importance
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Important Unimportant Significant
Polio vaccine reduces incidence of polio
Things you don’t care about, or already well known things:
Insignificant Small study shows a possible effect, leading to larger study which finds significance.
or Large study showing no effect of drug that was thought to be beneficial.
Studies with small sample size and high P-value
or Things you don’t care
about