Math 141: Readings for October 31, 2025

Reading

Before coming to lecture today, please read the following material:

• MD 9 - 9.1 (Stop at The theory-based approach header),
• MD 9.3

Homework Assignment

After you’ve completed the reading, but before coming to class, please complete the following homework assignment. Bring your responses to this assignment (handwritten or typed) to class on a piece of paper:

• Think about a hypothesis test that you are interested in conducting. Fully describe the process you would embark on to perform this hypothesis test in language accessible to someone who hasn’t taken a statistics course. Describe the data collection, the parameter of interest, the sample statistic, your null hypothesis, and the way you’ll use these to draw conclusions from the data. Feel free to draw pictures as needed.