What is the very first step in a hypothesis test?

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General reasoning about the correct first step in a hypothesis test:
- In a standard hypothesis testing framework, the very first concrete step is to formulate the hypotheses. This means specifying the null hypothesis (H0) and the alternative hypothesis (Ha or H1) that reflect the claim or question being tested. This step sets the direction and scope of the test and determines what constitutes evidence against H0.
- After stating the hypotheses, one would typically choose a significance level (alpha), identify the test statistic, and decide the sampling distribution under H0. Only then is data collection and calculation of the test statistic performed.
- The notion of "assuming the claimed value for the population parameter is true" corresponds more to a conditional setup used in some teaching explanations (e.g., to describe what happens when H0 is true while computing a p-value). However, procedurally, this is not the first step; it is more of a conceptual scaffolding used when constructing the sampling distribution under H0 for p-value calculation.
- Therefore, the most accurate description of the first step is to clearly state the null and alternative hypotheses, not to assume the claimed parameter value as the starting point for the test.

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