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Unit 3: Inference for Categorical Data: Proportions

Setting Up a Test for a Population Proportion

Set up a one-sample z-test for a population proportion: define the parameter, write null and alternative hypotheses, and check the conditions using the null value.

Topic 3.5 · 8 min read

This lesson comes with the AP Statistics plan

In this lesson

  1. 01The procedure and its parameter
  2. 02Null and alternative hypotheses
  3. 03Conditions, checked with the null value
  4. 04Worked examples
  5. 05Where students lose points
  6. 06On the exam

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