An Exercise to Introduce Power

Creator(s)

Edith Seier, East Tennessee State UniversityFollow
Yali Liu, East Tennessee State University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-1-2013

Description

In introductory statistics courses, the concept of power is usually presented in the context of testing hypotheses about the population mean. We instead propose an exercise that uses a binomial probability table to introduce the idea of power in the context of testing a population proportion.

Citation Information

Seier, Edith; and Liu, Yali. 2013. An Exercise to Introduce Power. Teaching Statistics. Vol.35(1). 53-56. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9639.2011.00464.x ISSN: 0141-982X