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I'm still waiting for Information Theory to be updated with the errata I submitted. In at least two places (pages 458 and 459) he mentions the possibility of ac

• sesqu 14y ago
  What was your replacement suggestion? I would say acceptance is often a fair description for lack of rejection.
  • bhickey 14y ago
    The null hypothesis is never accepted. You can fail to reject the null, but this is entirely different from accepting it. If you claimed to accept the null in an intro statistics class, you'd probably be failed.
    • sesqu 14y ago
      That's an extremely dogmatic position. There are certainly situations where it is not useful or even accurate to proceed under the null hypothesis, but the converse is also very much true. Checking Wikipedia, I see they also describe the scenario as "accept or fail to reject". If you want to argue for why "accept" is materially different from "fail to reject", feel free to do so - but I suggest that the chasm is by no means wide.