Calculator Tips for Chapter 8

Math 151 Chapter 8 Calculator Commands

I.

To perform a hypothesis test for proportion

Press STAT -> Tests and select #5:1-PropZTest. Enter the claimed (the proportion being claimed not the proportion found in your sample or the proportion from your Null hypothesis if different from your claim) value of the population proportion of p0, then enter the values for x (# of successes in your sample) and n (sample size). Select the type of test (ie Is your claim stating not equal to, less than, or greater than some proportion this will actually come from your alternative hypothesis). Highlight Calculate, then press the Enter key. The next screen will give you prop (or p0 that you inputted), the test statistic, z, p (or the Pvalue), p-hat (or the proportion found in your sample) and n (the sample size that you inputted. You can either compare the P-value to .05 or use the test statistic z to determine if you have sufficient evidence to accept or reject your null hypothesis which will then lead you to determine if you have sufficient evidence to accept or reject your claim.

II.

Testing a Claim About a Mean where the Standard Deviation is known

Press STAT -> Tests and select #1:ZTest. You have a choice to either raw data which has been inputted into a List via Stat -> Edit or you can select Stats to input statistics. If you select Stats, then enter 0, the mean in the null hypotheses; enter the standard deviation; enter x-bar, the mean from your sample; enter n, the sample size. Then select the type of test (ie Is your claim stating not equal to, less than, or greater than some proportion this will actually come from your alternative hypothesis). Highlight Calculate, then press the Enter key. The next screen will give you information similar to above in I. You can either compare the P-value to .05 or use the test statistic z to determine if you have sufficient evidence to accept or reject your null hypothesis which will then lead you to determine if you have sufficient evidence to accept or reject your claim. II. Testing a claim About a Mean where the Standard Deviation is not known Press STAT -> Tests and select #2:TTest. You have a choice to either raw data which has been inputted into a List via Stat -> Edit or you can select Stats to input statistics. If you select Stats, then enter 0, the mean in the null hypotheses; enter the standard deviation; enter x-bar, the mean from your sample; enter n, the sample size. Then select the type of test (ie Is your claim stating not equal to, less than, or greater than some proportion this will actually come from your alternative hypothesis). Highlight Calculate, then press the Enter key. The next screen will give you information similar to above in I.

You can either compare the P-value to .05 or use the test statistic z to determine if you have sufficient evidence to accept or reject your null hypothesis which will then lead you to determine if you have sufficient evidence to accept or reject your claim.

III. To find the P-value when only given t and n. Select 2nd Vars -> #6 tcdf( -> then input lower bound, upper bound, df in that order. In other words you have a t-statistic. Where is this on the horizontal number line and are you trying to find a P-value for an area less than the t-statistics or greater than the t-statistic. If you are trying to find an area less than the t-statistic then the lower bound will be negative infinity or -E99 and your upper bound will be the t-statistic. If you are trying to find an area greater than the tstatistic then your lower bound will be the t-statistic and the upper bound will be positive infinity or E99). The degrees of freedom will always be n-1.