X-Git-Url: https://pintos-os.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Ftutorial.texi;h=540da62abd90d409219a73ac2004bdba46d11ea6;hb=HEAD;hp=bc9be40c5aa7f0af2602ae7ae7571de5db4eb0fd;hpb=ef84667224c749f5f9e53ae560faf4530aef4944;p=pspp-builds.git diff --git a/doc/tutorial.texi b/doc/tutorial.texi index bc9be40c..540da62a 100644 --- a/doc/tutorial.texi +++ b/doc/tutorial.texi @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ should type. Throughout this chapter reference is made to a number of sample data files. So that you can try the examples for yourself, -you should have received these files along with your copy of PSPP. +you should have received these files along with your copy of PSPP.@c @footnote{These files contain purely fictitious data. They should not be used for research purposes.} @note{Normally these files are installed in the directory @@ -639,15 +639,16 @@ is hypothesis testing. Researchers commonly need to test hypotheses about a set of data. For example, she might want to test whether one set of data comes from the same distribution as another, -or does the mean of a dataset significantly differ from a particular +or +whether the mean of a dataset significantly differs from a particular value. This section presents just some of the possible tests that PSPP offers. The researcher starts by making a @dfn{null hypothesis}. Often this is a hypothesis which he suspects to be false. For example, if he suspects that @var{A} is greater than @var{B} he will -state the null hypothesis as @math{ @var{A} = @var{B}}. -@footnote{This example assumes that is it already proven that @var{B} is +state the null hypothesis as @math{ @var{A} = @var{B}}.@c +@footnote{This example assumes that it is already proven that @var{B} is not greater than @var{A}.} The @dfn{p-value} is a recurring concept in hypothesis testing.