Claim: Last quarter, the average home price in Washington state was $409,228.
Do you believe, since the COVID-19 pandemic started, that home prices have are different?
Test the claim, using a two-tail hypothesis test at the 5% significance level.
a) Gather the data.
Here is my data from Redfin:
House | Price |
1 | 819500 |
2 | 499950 |
3 | 569000 |
4 | 220000 |
5 | 110000 |
6 | 499999 |
7 | 389900 |
8 | 399000 |
9 | 650000 |
10 | 459000 |
11 | 975000 |
12 | 749000 |
13 | 848000 |
14 | 529000 |
15 | 325000 |
16 | 895000 |
17 | 337250 |
18 | 489000 |
19 | 485000 |
20 | 369000 |
21 | 2100000 |
22 | 509000 |
23 | 469900 |
24 | 380000 |
25 | 260000 |
26 | 475000 |
27 | 765000 |
28 | 675000 |
29 | 649000 |
30 | 256500 |
(b) What is your sample average and sample standard deviation for home prices?
c) What are the hypotheses for your test? Explain.
(d) What is the test statistic? Is this a z- or a t-score? Why?
(e) What is the p-value? What is the meaning of the p-value when the null hypothesis is assumed to be true?
(f) Based on your answer in part (e), should you reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis? Explain. State the conclusion for the test in clear, simple language.
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