Question

Heather, a sociology major is interested in studying mass media topics. She is particularly interested in the percentage of mass media topics that relate to entertainment. Based on previous research, 72% of mass media topics relate to entertainment. She suspects this percent is different. During the process of hypothesis testing, she calculates a probability using the test statistic. What is the probability associated with the test statistic called

Answer 1

Pvalue

Explanation:

The Pvalue measure which takes up a value in the range 0 - 1 is a statistical measure used on hypothesis testing to measure the likelihood of obtaining result atleast as extreme as the outcome of the statistical hypothesis test, The Pvalue is used in hypothesis testing to make a case for the alternative hypothesis, which involves being compared with the α - value.

Lower p values favors the adoption of alternative depending on how extreme th α-value is. The Pvalue is dependent on the value if the test statistic.