Contents
- 6.1 Hypothesis testing
- 6.1.1 The significance level – 5% 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-significant result, Normal distribution, not proven, null hypothesis, observed outcome, p-value, probability distribution, proof by contradiction, response time, significance level, significance test, significant difference, significant result, software design, statistical inference, statistical significance, Student's t distribution, traditional statistics, Type I error, uncertain knowledge, upper bound