Question

A hospital claims that the proportion of full-term babies born in the hospital who weigh less than seven pounds is no more than . Suppose that we want to carry out a hypothesis test for this claim, suspecting otherwise. State the null hypothesis and the alternative hypothesis that we would use for this test.

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Answer 1

The null hypothesis H0: p=p0 (the proportion of full-term babies, born in the hospital who weigh less than seven pounds, is equal to p0).
The alternative hypothesis H1: p<p0 (the proportion of full-term babies, born in the hospital who weigh less than seven pounds, is less than p0).