Suppose you are the manager of a mental health agency. You are required to give quality control reports on providing suicide prevention training to your staff. You have invited a national expert on this topic and provided training to your staff. Now you have given surveys on the knowledge of this topic before and after the training to your staff. You collected the surveys back and you are about to conduct statistical analysis to see whether the training was successful in enhancing the knowledge base among your staff.
What is your null hypothesis in this project?
It is example of paired t test/Related sample t test.
Null hypothesis

Where,
Population mean difference for before and after data.
Suppose you are the manager of a mental health agency. You are required to give quality...
Suppose you are the manager of a mental health agency. You are required to give quality control reports on providing suicide prevention training to your staff. You have invited a national expert on this topic and provided training to your staff. Now you have given surveys on the knowledge of this topic before and after the training to your staff. You collected the surveys back and you are about to conduct statistical analysis to see whether the training was successful...
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