Is There A Difference Unit Portfolio

Part 1: Unit Summary

Beautiful examples (Your assignment work here!
Evidence)

Amazing Narratives ( Answers to each of the

Discussion Questions)
Here are my notes for the concepts of sample,
population, hypothesis, null hypothesis and
sample fluctuation, but what do these concept
mean? Sample population is an entire collection
of people or things from which we may collect
data, while a hypothesis is an idea that we can
use to test a sample of population with. A
hypothesis can also be used to compare two
populations and find differences. In comparison,
instead of comparing or trying to find a
difference, a null hypothesis simply says that
there is no difference in the sample population.

Standard deviation is used to determine how

spread out a set of data is from the mean. It can
also be used to determine whether a difference
is significant from the mean. Once a standard
deviation is calculated, if the number is low it
means that data is very closely related thus
making it more reliable, although if the number
is larger it means there is a higher variance in
the data making it more unreliable.

Chi squared is a type of test that is used in math

to calculate the weirdness of set of data and
ultimately to find out if we accept the null
hypothesis or the hypothesis. Chi squared is
calculated in few steps:
1. Get the expected/observed values in the
formula
2. Subtract the obs-exp for both of the
problems
3. Then square the results
4. Then add them together
5. Then divided by the denominator
After these five steps, you will have the chi
squared for any set of expected observed
values.

The chi squared statistic can be calculated by

this formula for a two population problem.
Observed
Expected
Observed - Expected
------------- - ------------- = ---------------------------Total
Total
Total

x = (ObSH - ExPH)
---------------------EXPH

(OBST - EXPT)
---------------------EXPT

Chi squared can be applied also be applied to a

two population problem as seen from above.
This helps to get the amount of weirdness a
set of data of has with two different variables.
The table that is on the left is an example of two
population set of data that can solved with the
formula posted above.

Part 2: Putting it all together

How do you determine whether there is difference, statistically, between two samples from two
populations? Put another way how do you know that the difference isnt just sample fluctuation?
- Anonymous Visitor

To know how to determine the difference between two samples I would use
the Chi Squared statistically, although it is impossible to truly know
whether we have truly calculated the difference or that it is just
sample fluctuation.