While continuing to keep abreast of local trends in education, a school administrator read an article that reported only 42% of high school students study on a regular basis. He claims that this percentage is too low for his district. State the null and alternative hypotheses for the given scenario.

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Estimation

A new framework of data analysis where the new statistical methods are used for interpreting the results and analyzing the data is known as estimation in statistics.