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HYPOTHESIS TESTING
Click on the link above to obtain a subsam ple of the BMI at baseline am ong 20 Fram ingham participants in the dataset subset .dta. Assum e that BMI at baseline is nor m ally distr ibuted, but the variance of BMI at baseline is unknown.

1. Construct a 90% confidence inter val for BMI at baseline am ong Fram ingham par ticipants using the subsam ple. 24.78895

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2. Using the confidence int er val in question 1 above, would you reject the null hypothesis t hat BMI am ong part icipant s with diabet es is equal t o 27 (versus the alternative that BMI is not equal to 27) at the 90% confidence level? (Hint : does the confidence int erval cont ain 27?) Yes No

3. For norm ally distribut ed random var iables with known variance, t he width of t he 90% pr edictive interval for t he sam ple m ean is equal to the width of a 90% confidence interval for the population m ean. Tr ue False

4. For the test descr ibed in quest ion 2 above, what is: the value of t est stat istic -0.7462

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the distribution of the test statistic under the null hypothesis

Standard nor m al distr ibution t-dist ribution with 20 degrees of freedom t-dist ribution with 19 degrees of freedom

The p-value 0.4647

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5. Using the confidence int er val above, we conclude that BMI at baseline in the Fram ingham cohort is not differ ent from 27 at t he ` Tr ue False

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level of significance.

6. If an out lier is disproport ionately influencing your hypothesis test , you should always thr ow it out . Tr ue False

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Abhijeet safai (/ cour ses/ Harvar dX/ PH207x/ 2012_Fall/ discussion/ forum / users/ 359904) 2 months ago

I calculated . sum bmi1 and then di 26.3335 - invnormal(0.95)* 3.99473 and di 26.3335 + invnormal(0.95)* 3.99473. The answers are 19.762754 and 32.904246 respectively. When I checked the answers , they were wrong and when I saw the answer s, they ar e nothing but the r age of t test at 90% CI. I under stood fr om this that t test can be used to constr uct 90% confidence interval. I would like to know as why these results are not similar to what we get fr om di 26.3335 - invnormal(0.95)* 3.99473 command? Thanks Is it so because the sample is less than 30?

Pepper pou rr i (/ cou r ses/ Har vardX/ PH207x/ 2012_Fall/ discu ssion / foru m / u ser s/ 402368)
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I used the same command as you, i.e. mean - invnor mal(0.95)* SD and got the same answers as you. They wer e of course incorr ect. Could someone please explain? Isn't it the same method as the pr evious questions? I.e. getting the 90%CI? And no, they aren't the same as the 95%CI of the t-test. I added sqrt(20) but don't get the corr ect answers too. Kindly help.

when the sample standard deviation is not known, as stated in the question, we use "invttail(19, 0.05)

when the sample standard deviation is not known, as stated in the question, we use "invttail(19, 0.05) not invnormal that is used when sample SD is known.
posted 2 months ago by Kendra81 (/courses/HarvardX/PH207x/2012_Fall/discussion/forum/users/692068)

r eading thr ough other comments i see another way to ar rive at the answer.
posted 2 months ago by Kendra81 (/courses/HarvardX/PH207x/2012_Fall/discussion/forum/users/692068)

Since you are checking the value for sub population you should also use sqrt of sub population in your for mula
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Su san Au st (/ cou r ses/ Har vardX/ PH207x/ 2012_Fall/ discu ssion / foru m / u ser s/ 629320)
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You are using a sample and constructing a confidence inter val using the sample mean, so you should use standard error. You don't know the population sigma, so you use t. cii 20 26.3335 3.99473, level(90)

Thanks a lot!
posted 2 months ago by Abhijeetsafai (/courses/HarvardX/PH207x/2012_Fall/discussion/forum/users/359904)

sigma of the sample is the sigma / sqrt(20) for the calculation by hand
posted 2 months ago by GianniTee (/courses/HarvardX/PH207x/2012_Fall/discussion/forum/users/643919)

or, by hand: di 26.3335 +- invnor mal(0.95)* 3.99473/sqrt(20)

posted 2 months ago by StAnthony (/courses/HarvardX/PH207x/2012_Fall/discussion/forum/users/299538)

Thank you so much!

posted 2 months ago by Nbahr (/courses/HarvardX/PH207x/2012_Fall/discussion/forum/users/630501)

I have sample mean of 26.6015 only.How do you get 26.3335?

posted 2 months ago by drmoesandar (/courses/HarvardX/PH207x/2012_Fall/discussion/forum/users/186443)

If you wer e using bmi1, then it sounds like you have altered the original data - probably in the homework exercises when bmi1 was categorised. Get a clean data set from this website. Don't save the data when you exit Stata or , if you really want to keep variables you have created, save as a different name. That way your original data will remain uncorrupted.
posted 2 months ago by SusanAust (/courses/HarvardX/PH207x/2012_Fall/discussion/forum/users/629320) COMMUNITY TA

Thanks, susan
posted 2 months ago by ValeriaFAP (/courses/HarvardX/PH207x/2012_Fall/discussion/forum/users/649470)

Thank you! Finally got it! Simpler way is just to use the drop down menu, since we have a dataset available.
posted 2 months ago by Pepperpourri (/courses/HarvardX/PH207x/2012_Fall/discussion/forum/users/402368)

Some like the menus, some don't. I rarely use them, so my comments here are usually related to the

command syntax.
posted 2 months ago by SusanAust (/courses/HarvardX/PH207x/2012_Fall/discussion/forum/users/629320) COMMUNITY TA

cii with your syntax generated the error message 'varlist not allowed'. Is some additional syntax r equired? Thanks
posted 2 months ago by howardbarkan (/courses/HarvardX/PH207x/2012_Fall/discussion/forum/users/172618)

No, if you cut and paste the command it should wor k. I just tried, and it was fine.
posted 2 months ago by SusanAust (/courses/HarvardX/PH207x/2012_Fall/discussion/forum/users/629320) COMMUNITY TA

I see cii is confidence inter val calculator . I spotted the syntax problem: need a comma following the std dev. Thanks for wor king this late in the eve (or early in the AM). I'm on the West coast with other r esponsibilities which often make it difficult for spend much time on this course until late in the week. Your responses are dependably helpful.
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Q5
Rob_Biggar (/ cour ses/ Harvar dX/ PH207x/ 2012_Fall/ discussion/ forum / users/ 273013) 2 months ago

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If my P-value>alpha, then shouldn't you NOT REJ ECT the null hypothesis and hence mew=27 and q5 is true? anyone?

su zan n eph am (/ cou r ses/ Har vardX/ PH207x/ 2012_Fall/ discu ssion / f oru m / u ser s/ 492947)
2 months ago

I thought this one was tricky too, but perhaps they are tr ying to drive home the point that saying "I can't reject the hypothesis that the mean BMI is 27 among diabetic participants" is not the same as "I conclude that the mean BMI is 27 among diabetic participants."

I am thinking that maybe we can conclude only the subsample not the entir e Framingham cohort (because we didn't test the entir e cohort we tested only the subsample) may be the reason
posted 2 months ago by J ittima (/courses/HarvardX/PH207x/2012_Fall/discussion/forum/users/181664)

I think q.5 says "we conclude bmi is NOT DIffERENT" from 27." which in other words is saying BMI IS 27. That is ACCEPTING the null hypothesis, which we can never do. The best we can say is that we cannot reject the hypothesis that bmi is 27. I am only putting differently what suzannepham has already said, i think.
posted 2 months ago by apchaphekar (/courses/HarvardX/PH207x/2012_Fall/discussion/forum/users/581036)

we conclude that BMI at baseline in the Fr amingham cohort is not different from 27 A confidence inter val is based around the mean. So it is the average BMI at baseline that the confidence interval is referencing. As written it is saying that every BMI = 27.
posted 2 months ago by SusanAust (/courses/HarvardX/PH207x/2012_Fall/discussion/forum/users/629320) COMMUNITY TA

So adding just two words: "Using the confidence interval above, we conclude that t he m ean BMI at baseline in the Framingham cohor t is not different from 27 at the =0.1 level of significance" would make it corr ect, r ight?
posted 2 months ago by wadjur (/courses/HarvardX/PH207x/2012_Fall/discussion/forum/users/642502)

You would still have to phr ase it as a hypothesis test. A confidence interval is equivalent to a two tail test at that level of significance. So you would say that you fail to reject the null hypothesis that the aver age BMI at baseline in the Fr amingham study is 27 at the 0.1 level of significance. (You would also include the units of measurement. 27 what?)
posted 2 months ago by SusanAust (/courses/HarvardX/PH207x/2012_Fall/discussion/forum/users/629320) COMMUNITY TA

Great insights as usual SusanAust. Why can't we accept the null hypothesis anyway?
posted 2 months ago by CarlosAyala (/courses/HarvardX/PH207x/2012_Fall/discussion/forum/users/559206)

So this is a message about the corr ect reporting of a result with non significant p value. As I understand, the r ules are: 1- It should be reported as a hypothesis. 2- It should be repor ted in negative sense "e.g. we failed to r eject the null hypothesis". 3- It should include the level of significance (alpha). Accordingly Q5 is false because it didn't satisfy the first rule. Am I cor rect?
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I think the wording is ambiguous as you can read it 2 ways: 1. the Framingham cohort is 'not different' from 27 at the =0.1 level of significance 2. the Framingham cohort is not 'different from 27 at the =0.1 level of significance' The former is false while the latter is true.

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My take on it was that there was a small but meaningful wor d missing fr om the statement. Recall what a confidence inter val is based on.

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we need to read the review sheet twice or thrice befor e we answer the above questions. the review sheet is quite explanatory in solving the problems.

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Differ ence in m anual calculat i on and t hat in St at a

forevergreen (/ courses/ Har vardX/ PH207x/ 2012_Fall/ discussion/ forum / user s/ 20879) 2 months ago I've done Q1 in Stata using cii 20 26.3335 3.99473, level(90) and got a CI which. I would imagine, is the required answer. However, to enhance...
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66 (/ courses/ HarvardX/ PH207x/ 2012_Fall/ discussion/ for um / users/ 461939) 2 months ago my t statistcs is 7.0904 & p value is .0000 and the answers are wrong but with that my question no is false which is correct somebody please explain

An aAlbu ja (/ cou rses/ Harvar dX/ PH207x/ 2012_Fall/ di scu ssion / for u m / u sers/ 653651) 2
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How did you calculate this? I had completely different answers (they are corr ect). I used stata as explained in the tutorial. Maybe you should notice that you are using a hypothesized mean of 27 and a CI of 90, also confir m that you do not have any value in the if option. I hope this helps.

i have a same problem, i write keep bmi1 sample 20,count ttest bmi1 == 27, level(90) my t stat and p value are wrong? what's wrong?please somebody can explain me.
posted 2 months ago by catherinelarapide (/courses/HarvardX/PH207x/2012_Fall/discussion/forum/users/657908)

cather ine, you don't take your own sample. You use the data set linked at the top of the question.
posted 2 months ago by SusanAust (/courses/HarvardX/PH207x/2012_Fall/discussion/forum/users/629320) COMMUNITY TA

cather ine have you downloaded subset.dta which is given above the question and do the ttest comman for the given data
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Su san Au st (/ cou r ses/ Har vardX/ PH207x/ 2012_Fall/ discu ssion / foru m / u ser s/ 629320)
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What for mula did you use?

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Q4 P val ue 1.000?
Horst Praut zsch (/ courses/ HarvardX/ PH207x/ 2012_Fall/ discussion/ forum / user s/ 588640) 2 months ago

i did: . ttest bmi1 == 26.3335, level(90) the ci is correct, but the p value not (stata displays: Pr(| T| >| t| )=1.000). what is my mistake?

pdy (/ cou rses/ HarvardX/ PH207x/ 2012_Fall/ discu ssion / for u m / u ser s/ 673511) 2 months ago
ttest bmi1 =27, level(90) not 26.6.. they ar e asking that mu=27, (not mu=26.6, that is the sample mean)form the sample. Hypothesise that mu=27.

they are asking that mu=27, not mu=26.6 for m the sample.
posted 2 months ago by pdy (/courses/HarvardX/PH207x/2012_Fall/discussion/forum/users/673511)

got it, thx pdy

posted 2 months ago by HorstPrautzsch (/courses/HarvardX/PH207x/2012_Fall/discussion/forum/users/588640)

had the sameproblem. thx

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St at em ent of Quest i on 2 is am bi guous

donnafst roup (/ cour ses/ Harvar dX/ PH207x/ 2012_Fall/ discussion/ forum / users/ 161511) 2 months ago

Note that the statement of question 2 is ambiguous. "Using the confidence interval in question 1 above, would you reject the null hypothesis...
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Usi ng t he com m and line for t t est (invt t ail)

k husham (/ courses/ Har vardX/ PH207x/ 2012_Fall/ discussion/ forum / user s/ 302278) 2 months ago Dear Susan, Could you please explain why we use 0.050? Thanks

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Su san Au st (/ cou r ses/ Har vardX/ PH207x/ 2012_Fall/ discu ssion / foru m / u ser s/ 629320)
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Not sure what you are asking her e. What are you using 0.05 for?

because is two tailed 0.05 each side=0.101

posted 2 months ago by anamatos (/courses/HarvardX/PH207x/2012_Fall/discussion/forum/users/405941)

sorry = 0.1
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acbhui (/ courses/ HarvardX/ PH207x/ 2012_Fall/ discussion/ forum / user s/ 248286) 2 months ago Guys, what is the definition of test statistic?

Rolu s (/ cou r ses/ Har vardX/ PH207x/ 2012_Fall / discu ssion / f oru m / u ser s/ 239548) 2 months ago
It is the t value in the test r esults in state. In any case is not 27

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that's t in the ttest in stata

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in this case, 27

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P value is gr eat er t han 0.1.

t ea112 (/ courses/ HarvardX/ PH207x/ 2012_Fall/ discussion/ forum / user s/ 616234) 2 months ago P value is greater than 0.1. It means "fail to reject the null hypothesis". The null hypothesis is right. I think that Question 5 answer is "true"

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af t r yn a (/ cou rses/ Harvar dX/ PH207x/ 2012_Fall/ discu ssion / foru m / u sers/ 577964) 2 months
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agree with you

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I agr ee too

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question 2 and question 5 basically ask the same thing: if I cannot reject the null hypothesis that bmi is equal to 27 at the 90% level (Q2), then bmi is not different from 27 at the alpha=0.1 level (Q5), so I believe cor rect answer to Q5 is "True"

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Cal cul at or : cii n m ean sd, level(95) vs Funct ion: ci var list , l evel(95)
Wyone (/ cour ses/ Harvar dX/ PH207x/ 2012_Fall/ discussion/ forum / users/ 806826) 16 days ago Hi, may I know what is the difference between the 2 formulae given in the handout? Calculator: cii n mean sd, level(95) Function: ci varlist, level(95) I keyed in both commands and got the same results: . ci bmi, level(90) Variable | bmi1 | Obs 20 Mean 26.3335 Std. Err. .8932487 [90% Conf. Interval] 24.78895 27.87805

. cii 20 26.3335 3.99473, level(90)

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Obs 20

Mean 26.3335

Std. Err. .8932488

[90% Conf. Interval] 24.78895 27.87805

What is the differ ence between { ci bmi, level(90) } and { cii 20 26.3335 3.99473, level(90) } ? Also, it says in the notes: Calculator: cii n mean sd, level(95) Function: ci var list, level(95) What do Calculator and Function actually mean? They gave the same results. If they are the same, why do we need 2 commands that do the same thing?

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One uses variables in a database; the other allows you to calculate the confidence interval, etc., assuming you have the input numbers. cii does not access a database.

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Wyon e (/ cou r ses/ Har vardX/ PH207x/ 2012_Fall/ discu ssion / f oru m / u ser s/ 806826) 15 days ago
Ah OK great, thank you so much!!!

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lvazdela (/ courses/ Har vardX/ PH207x/ 2012_Fall/ discussion/ forum / user s/ 708460) 2 months ago Please clarify why the correct response in Q5 is "false". p is hughly bigger than alpha, so we conclude that the mean of BMI in the Framingham...
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Mot az (/ cour ses/ Harvar dX/ PH207x/ 2012_Fall/ discussion/ forum / users/ 182174) 2 months ago Why is the mention of diabetes if it is irrelevant to the question? Non of the 20 persons ar e diabetic and you can't calculate it among par ticipants...
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What ar e confi dence int er val s and p-values?

Art im eht a (/ cour ses/ HarvardX/ PH207x/ 2012_Fall/ discussion/ forum / users/ 300213) 2 months ago I found the explanation easy to follow and hence quoted fr om: http://www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/painr es/download/whatis/what_ar e_conf_inter.pdf (http://www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/bandolier /painres/download/whatis/what_ar e_conf_inter.pdf)

H YPOTH ESIS TESTIN G AN D TH E GEN ERATION OF P-VALUES

The logic of hypothesis testing and p-values is convoluted. Suppose a new tr eatment appear s to outperform the standar d therapy in a resear ch study. We are interested in assessing whether this appar ent effect is likely to be real or could just be a chance finding: p-values help us to do this. In calculating the p-value, we first assume that there really is no true differ ence between the two treatments (t his is called t he null hypot hesis). We then calculate how likely we are to see the difference that we have observed just by chance if our supposition is true (that is, if there is really no true differ ence). This is t he p-value. So the p-value is the pr obability that we would observe effects as big as those seen in the study if there was really no difference between the treatments. If p is small, the findings are unlikely to have arisen by chance and we r eject the idea that there is no difference between the two treatments (we reject the null hypothesis). If p is lar ge, the observed difference is plausibly a chance finding and we do not reject the idea that there is no difference between the treatments. Note that we do not r eject the idea, but we do not accept it either : we are simply unable to say one way or another until other factors have been considered. But what do we mean by a smallp-value (one small enough to cause us to reject the idea that there was really no difference)? By convention, p-values of less than 0.05 are consider ed small . That is, if p is less than 0.05 there is a less than one in 20 chance that a difference as big as that seen in the study could have arisen by chance if ther e was really no true difference. With p-values this small (or smaller) we say that the results fr om the tr ial are statistically significant (unlikely to have arisen by chance). Sm aller p-values (say p<0.01) are sometimes called highly significant because they indicate that the observed difference would happen less than once in a hundr ed times if ther e was really no true difference. Please refer to the link for examples on Confidence Interval.

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thanks ar ti for this post it r eally helped me!

Welcome.
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Why i s sign of t -st at ist i cs value negat ive?

t m orom izat o (/ courses/ HarvardX/ PH207x/ 2012_Fall/ discussion/ forum / users/ 504001) 2 months ago In the distribution of q2 sample, Null value -27- is in right side of mean -26.3335-, so I thought t-statistics is positive

value. But it seems negative. I sincer ely appreciate if someone could teach me why t-statistics is negative here. I may misunderstand the concept of t-statistics.

Jest 01 (/ cou rses/ Harvar dX/ PH207x/ 2012_Fall/ discu ssion / for u m / u sers/ 656314) 2 months ago
I have the same doubt.

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tr y this. The sign of the test statistic is determined by the numer ator of the equation t = (xbar - MuNaught)/ (std dev/ sqrt(n) ) so - if we concentrate on the numerator: X-bar (the sample mean) minus Mu naught (the mean you are trying to accept/r eject in your hypothesis) in this case, the sample mean is 26.3335 and the hypothesis we are testing is that the mean is 27... so whenever the mean of the sample has a value that is LESS THAN the mean you ar e testing in your Null Hypothesis, the test statistic will have a negative value. hope this makes it clearer?

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is t her e a set of dat a com pat ibl e w it h st at a 10.1?

zarbp002 (/ courses/ HarvardX/ PH207x/ 2012_Fall/ discussion/ for um / users/ 698857) 2 months ago can't wor k with the file provided
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Yoju (/ courses/ HarvardX/ PH207x/ 2012_Fall/ discussion/ forum / users/ 263540) 2 months ago Could somebody please explain the concept for Q2. It seems like i am not understanding the wordings in the question? Anybody can explain that...
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Q.5
Kat t im ani (/ courses/ HarvardX/ PH207x/ 2012_Fall/ discussion/ for um / users/ 541148) 2 months ago 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. we are chosing one sample t test, at alpha=0.10 and pr edictive confidence interval of sample mean to be 90% null hypothesis: mu=muspecified, (here in this m u specified = 27) alternate hypotheis: mu not equal to 27 t test done t=-0.7462, with df=19, p value=0.4647 sample mean is no different from the population mean, that fail to reject null hypothesis Using the confidence interval above (24.785, 27.874), we conclude that BMI at baseline in the Framingham cohort is not differ ent fr om 27 at the =0.1 level of significance.

Hence Q5. answer should be Tr ue but.....it is being shown as False

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I think we should not mixup the two different appr oaches, first appr oach is based on CI where as second approach is based hypothesis testing, and should not use CI r esults to interpr et/explain significance at alpha in hypothesis testing.

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pl. explain more . I also feel kattimani is cor rect

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st at a com m ands di fficult

neelu1965 (/ courses/ Har vardX/ PH207x/ 2012_Fall/ discussion/ forum / user s/ 711460) about a month ago wanted to know how to use the drop down menu for getting confidence limits. far behind all of you all in class progress. i did statistics- summaries- classical test - one sample mean comparison test-variable bmi1, hypotesized mean - 27 and confidence limit 90.

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wiat...how come i got a mean of 26? adding the total divided by 20 observatiosn??? how is it 27 mean?

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Q3 please clar ify Susan?

PunjabiMunda (/ cour ses/ Harvar dX/ PH207x/ 2012_Fall/ discussion/ forum / users/ 619482) 2 months ago Dear SusanAust, Can you explain Q3?? it says does the width of 90% pr edictive interval for sample mean ( mu +/1.645* s.d/sqrt n) equal to width of 90% confidence interval for population mean mu ( x bar +/- 1.645* s.d /sqrt n) ??

bal sm art 2002 (/ cou rses/ HarvardX/ PH207x/ 2012_Fall/ discu ssion / for u m / u ser s/ 680317) 2
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i also have same doubt...... i cant unserstand this concept

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drjuansanjuan (/ cour ses/ HarvardX/ PH207x/ 2012_Fall/ discussion/ forum / users/ 595829) 2 months ago

I have a question. i did drop all the missing bmi1, but i don't know if ther e's any "set seed" to mark fir st, because i ran: preserve drop bmi1==. sample 20, count ttest bmi1 = 27, level(90) and my results ar e different... Could you please help me?

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For this par ticular question you are given the subset of data. It is linked at the top of the page. So if you took

For this par ticular question you are given the subset of data. It is linked at the top of the page. So if you took your own r andom sample, you will get different results.

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