A Critique of One-Tailed Hypothesis Test Procedures in Business and Economics Statistics Textbooks

A survey of 44 introductory business and economics statistics textbooks finds that authors differ over the better way to explain one-tailed hypothesis tests. Approximately half of these books use the simple null hypothesis approach. The authors argue that the composite null hypothesis approach conta...

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Published in:The Journal of economic education 1999, Vol.30 (1), p.59-63
Main Authors: Liu, Tung, Stone, Courtenay C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied statistics
Business Administration Education
Clearinghouses
Econometrics
Economic Instruction
Economic statistics
Economic surveys
Economics Education
Higher Education
Hypotheses
Hypothesis Testing
Null Hypothesis
Population
Population mean
Probabilities
Probability
Sampling
Sampling distributions
Statistical Analysis
Statistics
Students
Textbook Evaluation
Textbook Research
Textbooks
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Summary:A survey of 44 introductory business and economics statistics textbooks finds that authors differ over the better way to explain one-tailed hypothesis tests. Approximately half of these books use the simple null hypothesis approach. The authors argue that the composite null hypothesis approach contains methodological shortcomings that potentially make it more difficult for students to learn how to use hypothesis tests.
ISSN:0022-0485
2152-4068
DOI:10.1080/00220489909595939