What is a Right Tailed Test?
A right tailed test (sometimes called an upper test) is where your hypothesis statement contains a greater than (>) symbol. In other words, the inequality points to the right. For example, you might be comparing the life of batteries before and after a manufacturing change. If you want to know if the battery life is greater than the original (let’s say 90 hours), your hypothesis statements might be:
Null hypothesis: No change (H0 = 90).
Alternate hypothesis: Battery life has increased (H1) > 90.
Null hypothesis: No change (H0 = 90).
Alternate hypothesis: Battery life has increased (H1) > 90.
The important factor here is that the alternate hypothesis(H1) determines if you have a right tailed test, not the null hypothesis.
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