Monthly Archives: July 2011

Hypothesis testing uses an eight-step method. The following covers the first four steps in detail. Subsequent blogs cover the remaining four steps and provide an example. The following is described in greater detail in Morgan Jones’ book, The Thinker’s Toolkit. … Continue reading →

What it is not–a cursory search of the Internet shows that most descriptions of hypothesis testing refer to a form of statistical analysis. This type of analysis uses probabilities, curve fitting, ignoring some data, and deals only with numeric data. … Continue reading →

Hypothesis testing for decision-making First a definition: a hypothesis is a statement or judgment we believe to be true and wish to prove so. In science or mathematics, the hypothesis is the goal of the research or the thing we … Continue reading →