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Rajesh Gupta
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Rajesh is a Hands-on Big Data Tech Lead and Enterprise Architect with extensive experience in the full life cycle of software development. He has successfully architected, developed and deployed highly scalable data solutions using Spark, Scala and Hadoop technology stack for several enterprises. A passionate, hands-on technologist, Rajesh has masters degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from BITS, Pilani (India).
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Hypothesis testing

Hypothesis testing is a statistical tool that is used for the following purposes:

  • Determining whether a result or model is statistically significant or not
  • Ensuring that a result or model did not occur by chance

A statistical hypothesis is used to establish a relationship between data using a sample set of observations. We can call this relationship a result or a model. The goal of hypothesis testing is to eliminate cases where a result occurs by chance. A null hypothesis, on the other hand, establishes that the relationship is not statistically significant.

We typically start with a sample set of observations that consists of values associated with more than one variable. In the Basics of statistics section, we looked at properties of a single variable in isolation, except for Pearson's correlation methodology, where we measured the linear relationship...

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Rajesh Gupta

Rajesh is a Hands-on Big Data Tech Lead and Enterprise Architect with extensive experience in the full life cycle of software development. He has successfully architected, developed and deployed highly scalable data solutions using Spark, Scala and Hadoop technology stack for several enterprises. A passionate, hands-on technologist, Rajesh has masters degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from BITS, Pilani (India).
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