Null Hypothesis

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Seonglae ChoSeonglae Cho
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2023 Jun 1 6:10
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H0

False Positive
(Type I Error ) contradicts
Null Hypothesis
while
False Negative
(Type II Error ) fails to reject
Null Hypothesis
. Statistical Power is defined as which is
True Positive
Rate.

Definition

Rejecting the null hypothesis does not mean proving the alternative hypothesis. Just as being not innocent does not mean being guilty of that specific crime.
It is a mechanism designed to avoid subjectivity, as it is much easier to prove something is not true than to prove it is true, using a hypothesis meant to be disproven that doesn't affect the paradigm. For example, when testing the difference between two sample means, we premise the assumption that the populations of the two sample groups are the same.

Process

  1. Assume Null Hypothesis
  1. Perform Experiments
  1. Reject Null Hypothesis
  1. Select
    Alternative Hypothesis
 
 
 
 
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