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Test for single proportions

In Chapter 1, you calculated a p-value for a test hypothesizing that the proportion of late shipments was greater than 6%. In that chapter, you used a bootstrap distribution to estimate the standard error of the statistic. A simpler alternative is to use an equation for the standard error based on the sample proportion, hypothesized proportion, and sample size.

\(z = \dfrac{\hat{p} - p_{0}}{\sqrt{\dfrac{p_{0}*(1-p_{0})}{n}}}\)

Let's revisit the p-value using this simpler calculation.

late_shipments is available; dplyr is loaded.

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Hypothesis Testing in R

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Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Hypothesize that the proportion of late shipments is 6%
p_0 <- ___

# Calculate the sample proportion of late shipments
p_hat <- ___



# Calculate the sample size
n <- ___
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