Re: Alternative hypothesis: Ha or H1 ?

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:44:04 -0700 from Ray Koopman <koopman@xxxxxx>:
On Oct 27, 12:29 pm, Stan Brown <the_stan_br...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This semester my college switched from a textbook that uses H-sub-a
for the alternative hypothesis to one that uses H-sub-1. Of course
I'll tell my students not to be surprised by either notation, but I
wonder: which do you use in your classes?

I generally use whatever I think will make things easiest for the
students. That usually means using the same notation as the text.

I agree. Which text do you use, and which notation does it use?

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