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About the Author by Frank S. Corotto is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Few students sitting in their introductory statistics class learn that they are being taught the product of a misguided effort to combine two methods into one. Few students learn that some think the method they are being taught should be banned. Wise Use of Null Hypothesis Tests: A Practitioner's Handbook follows one of the two methods that were combined: the approach championed by Ronald Fisher. Fisher's method is simple, intuitive, and immune to criticism. Wise Use of Null Hypothesis Tests is also a user-friendly handbook meant for practitioners. Rather than overwhelming the reader with endless mathematical operations that are rarely performed by hand, the author of Wise Use of Null Hypothesis Tests emphasizes concepts and reasoning. In Wise Use of Null Hypothesis Tests, the author explains what is accomplished by testing null hypotheses—and what is not. The author explains the misconceptions that concern null hypothesis testing. He explains why confidence intervals show the results of null hypothesis tests, performed backwards. Most importantly, the author explains the Big Secret. Many—some say all—null hypotheses must be false. But authorities tell us we should test false null
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- Author
- Frank S. Corotto
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science & Technology
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780323952842
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Science, Psychology, Medical
- Rating
- 3.77 / 5 (668 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14