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Petocz, Peter; Sowey, Eric – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2008
In this article, the authors focus on hypothesis testing--that peculiarly statistical way of deciding things. Statistical methods for testing hypotheses were developed in the 1920s and 1930s by some of the most famous statisticians, in particular Ronald Fisher, Jerzy Neyman and Egon Pearson, who laid the foundations of almost all modern methods of…
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Statistical Inference, Statistics, Statistical Analysis