Sean is thinking about creating an automatic cat feeder similar to one that he created for dogs. He believes that cats eat several times a day. He also believes that cats can be trained to come to the sound of a slight ding, indicating that a new tray of food has been opened. He has several friends set out small trays of food, sounding a ding to see if cats will associate the sound with curiosity about the food. This action is called

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Answer:

Hypothesis Testing

Explanation:

The use of statistics to assess the probability of a given assumption being accurate is hypothesis testing. The typical hypothesis testing process is made up of four stages.

  1. Establish the hypothesis null.
  2. Recognize a test metrics which can be used to determine the null hypothesis truth.
  3. Calculate the P-value, that is the likelihood that if the null hypothesis is true, a test result would be obtained at least as large as the one observed.
  4. Measure the p-value with an appropriate alpha value.