A time-on-website analog

It turns out that you already did a hypothesis test analogous to an A/B test where you are interested in how much time is spent on the website before and after an ad campaign. The frog tongue force (a continuous quantity like time on the website) is an analog. "Before" = Frog A and "after" = Frog B. Let's practice this again with something that actually is a before/after scenario.

We return to the no-hitter data set. In 1920, Major League Baseball implemented important rule changes that ended the so-called dead ball era. Importantly, the pitcher was no longer allowed to spit on or scuff the ball, an activity that greatly favors pitchers. In this problem you will perform an A/B test to determine if these rule changes resulted in a slower rate of no-hitters (i.e., longer average time between no-hitters) using the difference in mean inter-no-hitter time as your test statistic. The inter-no-hitter times for the respective eras are stored in the arrays nht_dead and nht_live, where "nht" is meant to stand for "no-hitter time."

Since you will be using your draw_perm_reps() function in this exercise, it may be useful to remind yourself of its call signature: draw_perm_reps(d1, d2, func, size=1) or even referring back to the chapter 3 exercise in which you defined it.

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Exercise instructions

Compute the observed difference in mean inter-nohitter time using diff_of_means().
Generate 10,000 permutation replicates of the difference of means using draw_perm_reps().
Compute and print the p-value.

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Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Compute the observed difference in mean inter-no-hitter times: nht_diff_obs
nht_diff_obs = ____

# Acquire 10,000 permutation replicates of difference in mean no-hitter time: perm_replicates
perm_replicates = ____


# Compute and print the p-value: p
p = ____
print('p-val =', p)

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When doing statistical inference, we speak the language of probability. A probability distribution that describes your data has parameters. So, a major goal of statistical inference is to estimate the values of these parameters, which allows us to concisely and unambiguously describe our data and draw conclusions from it. In this chapter, you will learn how to find the optimal parameters, those that best describe your data.

Exercise 1: Optimal parameters Exercise 2: How often do we get no-hitters?Exercise 3: Do the data follow our story?Exercise 4: How is this parameter optimal?Exercise 5: Linear regression by least squares Exercise 6: EDA of literacy/fertility data Exercise 7: Linear regression Exercise 8: How is it optimal?Exercise 9: The importance of EDA: Anscombe's quartet Exercise 10: The importance of EDA Exercise 11: Linear regression on appropriate Anscombe data Exercise 12: Linear regression on all Anscombe data

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Exercise 1: Formulating and simulating a hypothesis Exercise 2: Generating a permutation sample Exercise 3: Visualizing permutation sampling Exercise 4: Test statistics and p-values Exercise 5: Test statistics Exercise 6: What is a p-value?Exercise 7: Generating permutation replicates Exercise 8: Look before you leap: EDA before hypothesis testing Exercise 9: Permutation test on frog data Exercise 10: Bootstrap hypothesis tests Exercise 11: A one-sample bootstrap hypothesis test Exercise 12: A two-sample bootstrap hypothesis test for difference of means

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Exercise 1: A/B testing Exercise 2: The vote for the Civil Rights Act in 1964 Exercise 3: What is equivalent?Exercise 4: A time-on-website analog

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