One-Sided Test or Two-Sided Test? @jbstatistics

One-Sided Test or Two-Sided Test? @jbstatistics

Uploaded January 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

A discussion of when to use a one-sided alternative hypothesis and when to use a two-sided alternative hypothesis in hypothesis testing. I assume that the viewer has already had a brief introduction to the notion of one-sided and two-sided tests.

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One-Sided Test or Two-Sided Test?