Chapter 12 Joint Hypothesis Tests

This final chapter deals with a powerful tool of statistical inference: joint hypothesis tests. The concept of a joint hypothesis test is detailed in contrast to simple hypothesis tests - which are the types of hypothesis tests we have learned thus far. Once we establish what a joint hypothesis test can do, we then go about conducting the tests. This does introduce a new probability distribution that we need to use when calculating p-values. However, once a p-value is calculated we can use it to make a conclusion just like before.