Absolutely right, I've glossed over such terms as "rejecting the null hypothesis" but their exact meaning certainly offers clarity in this circumstance.
So assumptions about the distribution curves of a population are just assumptions? Is the strength of this assumption an area where you...
I think you've shed some light on what might be the discrepancy here. What I learned (more than I still remember) was from statistics in psychology and perhaps I was trying to apply the systems there to how I imagined they would be applied in a purely mathematical system.
I think what...
Wouldn't it be impossible to define a probability distribution for a truly infinite population? Or are you saying that you would just have to infer one to be able to continue?
My first post on these forums, was referred here by a friend of mine. Thanks in advance!
Mind that this question is coming from a BA in psych's worth of understanding: If I understand correctly, estimations of error margins are based on the relationship between a population and a sample of...