Chinese Journal of Medical Library and Information Science  2017;26(5):53-55,71

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1671-3982.2017.05.011

Problems needing special attention when hypothesis test is applied

Qingbo ZHAO ; Shuo LIU ; Kejian WU ; Qinghua XU ; Ruihua LIANG ; Baoni HE

Keywords

Hypothesis test; Testing efficacy; One-tailed test; Two-tailed test; Null hypothesis; Alternative hypothesis

Country

China

Language

Chinese

Abstract

Whether to select one-tailed test or two-tailed test,how to establish null hypothesis and alternative hypothesis,how to improve the test efficacy were elaborated,and the common problems encountered when hypothesis was applied in scientific papers were pointed out with examples.