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OpenStax, Introductory Statistics 2e §11.6 Test of a Single Variance · Example 1 · Statistics · Chi-square tests

Test of a Single Variance · Example 1

Math instructors are not only interested in how their students do on exams, on average, but how the exam scores vary. To many instructors, the variance (or standard deviation) may be more important than the average.
Suppose a math instructor believes that the standard deviation for his final exam is five points. One of his best students thinks otherwise. The student claims that the standard deviation is more than five points. If the student were to conduct a hypothesis test, what would the null and alternative hypotheses be?

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