Question

You hear on the local news that for the city of kalamazoo, the proportion of people who support president obama is 0.63. however, you think it is less than 0.63. the hypothesis you want to test are null hypothesis: p ≥ 0.63, alternative hypothesis: p < 0.63. you take a random sample around town and calculate a p-value for your hypothesis test of 0.0204. what is the appropriate conclusion

Answer 1

at the standard 0.05 value, this is not significant, however at a 0.01 level, it would be significant