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One-sample z-test – HP Prime Graphing Calculator User Manual

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Inference app

The HP Prime hypothesis tests use the Normal Z-
distribution or the Student’s t-distribution to calculate
probabilities. If you wish to use other distributions, please
use the Home view and the distributions found within the
Probability category of the Math menu.

One-Sample Z-Test

Menu name

Z-Test: 1 

On the basis of statistics from a single sample, this test
measures the strength of the evidence for a selected
hypothesis against the null hypothesis. The null hypothesis
is that the population mean equals a specified value, 





.

You select one of the following alternative hypotheses
against which to test the null hypothesis:

H

0

:  < 

0

H

0

:  > 

0

H

0

:  ≠ 

0

Inputs

The inputs are:

Field name

Definition
Sample mean

n

Sample size

0

Hypothetical population mean

Population standard deviation

Significance level

x