Propztest – Texas Instruments TI-84 User Manual

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Chapter 13: Inferential Statistics and Distributions

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2-PropZTest

2-PropZTest

2-PropZTest

2-PropZTest

2-PropZTest

(two-proportion

z

test; item

6

) computes a test to compare the proportion of

successes (p

1

and p

2

) from two populations. It takes as input the count of successes in

each sample (

x

1

and

x

2

) and the count of observations in each sample (

n

1

and

n

2

).

2-PropZTest

tests the null hypothesis H

0

: p

1

=p

2

(using the pooled sample proportion

Ç)

against one of the alternatives below.

H

a

: p

1

ƒp

2

(

p1:

ƒ

p2

)

H

a

: p

1

<p

2

(

p1:<p2

)

Calculated

results:

Drawn

results:

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