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>"That isn't a question that any statistical approach will help you with. There's a reason we talk in terms of "rejecting" or "failing to reject" a hypothesis.
by nonbel 9y ago
>"That isn't a question that any statistical approach will help you with. There's a reason we talk in terms of "rejecting" or "failing to reject" a hypothesis. We don't do statistical tests to accept hypotheses, only to reject them."
In (Neyman-Pearson's) hypothesis testing you definitely can accept an hypothesis. This is not true for (Fisher's) significance testing though.
This paper is probably fine to explain it:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/0470013192.bsa438 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/0470013192.b...