TY - BOOK ID - 101916603 TI - Wise use of null hypothesis tests : a practitioner's handbook PY - 2023 SN - 9780323952859 9780323952842 0323952852 0323952844 PB - London, United Kingdom : Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier, DB - UniCat KW - Mathematical statistics. KW - Statistical hypothesis testing. KW - Hypothesis testing (Statistics) KW - Significance testing (Statistics) KW - Statistical significance testing KW - Testing statistical hypotheses KW - Distribution (Probability theory) KW - Hypothesis KW - Mathematical statistics KW - Mathematics KW - Statistical inference KW - Statistics, Mathematical KW - Statistics KW - Probabilities KW - Sampling (Statistics) KW - Statistical methods UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101916603 AB - "Wise Use of Null Hypothesis Tests is a user-friendly handbook meant for practitioners. Rather than overwhelming the reader with endless mathematical operations that are rarely performed by hand, the author 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. 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 hypotheses anyway to determine the direction of a difference that we know must be there (a topic unrelated to so-called one-tailed tests). In Wise Use of Null Hypothesis Tests, the author explains how to control how often we get the direction wrong (it is not half of alpha) and commit a Type III (or Type S) error."-- ER -