STATEMENT OF

HYPOTHESES
FELLAH MAE E. FUNTANILLA
HYPOTHESIS
•It is a statement or tentative theory that aims to
explain facts about the real world.
•It is an educated guess based on pertinent
evidences
•It is an assumption made about the probability
distribution of the population
Two Types Of Statistical Hypothesis

 NULL HYPOTHESIS
 ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS
NULL HYPOTHESIS
• The hypothesis that we hope to reject or do not reject.
• The hypothesis stating that there are no difference between
the procedures.
• It represents the status quo to the party performing the
sampling experiment.
• It is the hypothesis that will be rejected unless the data
provide a convincing evidence that it is false.
• It is denoted by .
ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS
•The hypothesis that will be accepted if the data
provide convincing evidence of its truth.
• The hypothesis that differs or shows the opposite
of the given hypothesis.
•It represents the hypothetical statement that the
researcher wants to prove.
•It is denoted by .
•H: There is no significant difference in the
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performance of male and female education
students in Statistics.

•H: Significant differences existed in the

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performance of male and female education
students in Statistics.