Essential Financial Terms and Formulas

Business Structures

Sole Proprietorship

A business owned by a single individual.

Partnership

An association of two or more individuals joining together as co-owners to operate a business for profit.

General Partnership

A partnership in which all partners are fully liable for the indebtedness incurred by the partnership.

Limited Partnership

A partnership in which one or more of the partners have limited liability, restricted to the amount of capital he or she invested in the partnership.

Corporation

An entity

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QMS 202 Test 2: Hypothesis Testing and Statistical Analysis

QMS 202 Test 2: Statistical Analysis Crib Sheet

By: Eron Gjongecaj, Student nr: 50053246

Chapter 12: Comparing Means and Proportions

Topics: Comparing means of two related populations, comparing the proportions of two independent populations.

Comparing Means Between Two Related Populations: Paired T-Test

Paired t-test for the mean difference: Population needs to be normally distributed. If not, we can still use the paired t-test if the sample size is not very small.

  1. State the null and alternative hypotheses.
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Hypothesis Testing: Concepts, Steps, and Result Interpretation

Hypothesis Testing: Concepts, Steps, and Interpretation

Background:

  • A statistical hypothesis is an assumption about a population parameter. This assumption may or may not be true.
  • The best way to determine whether a statistical hypothesis is true would be to examine the entire population.

Since that is often impractical, researchers typically examine a random sample from the population.

If sample data are not consistent with the statistical hypothesis, the hypothesis is rejected.

The question of interest

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