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Statistical Thinking for Data Science

Lena Abebe · textbook

Chapter 9

Hypothesis testing

A hypothesis test asks how surprising the observed data would be if a default assumption — the null hypothesis — were true.

A p-value is not the probability that the null hypothesis is true. It is the probability of results at least this extreme, assuming the null.

Report effect sizes and confidence intervals alongside p-values so that readers can judge practical importance.

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