Week 3

Author

Bea Taylor

Published

October 29, 2025

Introduction

This week will introduce hypothesis testing - firstly how do we define research questions and hypotheses, and secondly, what are the key statistical tests for evaluating hypotheses.

This week builds on the statistical concepts introduced in week 2. If you’re new to hypothesis testing then I’d recommend having a look at some of the resources below.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this week, you will be able to:

  1. Establish a hypothesis for a given research project.
  2. Define the Type I and Type II errors.
  3. Evaluate a hypothesis using appropriate statistical tests.

Lecture

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Quiz

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Practical

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Note

To save a copy of notebook to your own GitHub Repo: follow the GitHub link, click on Raw and then Save File As... to save it to your own computer. Make sure to change the extension from .ipynb.txt (which will probably be the default) to .ipynbbefore adding the file to your GitHub repository.

Further resources