Contents
- 6.1 Hypothesis testing
- 6.1.1 The significance level – 5 percent and all that
- 6.1.2 But what does it mean?
- 6.1.3 Non-significant results
- 6.1.4 In summary—significance
- 6.2 Confidence intervals
- 6.2.1 The interval
- 6.2.2 Important as well as significant?
- 6.2.3 Don’t forget …
Glossary items referenced in this chapter
alternative hypothesis, Binomial distribution, bounds, cherry picking, coin tossing, confidence interval, effect size, error rate, experimental error, fair coin, false positive, hypothesis testing, likelihood, lower bound, mathematics, multiple tests, non-significance, non-significant result, Normal distribution, not proven, not significant, null hypothesis, observed outcome, p-value, proof by contradiction, response time, significance level, significance test, significant difference, significant result, software design, statistical reasoning, statistical significance, statistically significant, statistically significant difference, Student's t distribution, traditional statistics, Type I error, uncertain knowledge, upper bound