Hypothesis Testing: Pinnacle Fitness Project
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Please help in understanding how to formulate null and alternative hypotheses for each of the statistics provided
Treat their statistics as population values to be tested.
Assist in writing a summary of your findings and discuss how the customer base (population) may have changed in seven years.
What do these changes mean for marketing strategy? How can company capitalize on the analyst's findings?
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The solution provides a step-by-step method for the calculation of testing an hypothesis. Formula for the calculation and interpretation of the results are also included.
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The firm's report can be analyzed as follows:
The average household income is less than $65,000.
The null hypothesis tested is
H0: Mean household income ≥ $65,000 (µ ≥ $65,000)
The alternative hypothesis is
H1: Mean household income < $65,000 (µ < $65,000)
Significance level = 0.05
Test Statistic used is given that = 71,027, n = 250, s = 15,782.01389, = 65,000
Therefore, = 6.04
Decision rule: Reject the null hypothesis, if the observed significance (p-value) is less than the significance level 0.05.
P-value = P (t249 < 6.04) = 1.000
Conclusion: Fails to reject the null hypothesis, since the observed significance (p-value) is greater than the significance level 0.05. The sample does not provide enough evidence to support the firm's claim that the mean household income is less than $65,000.
Minitab output
One-Sample T: Income
Test of mu = 65000 vs < 65000
95% Upper
Variable N Mean StDev SE Mean Bound T P
Income 250 71027 15782 998 72675 6.04 1.000
Hence it is clear that there is a significant increase in the household income over the seven years. In other words, there ...
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