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"A surge of p-values between 0.040 and 0.049 in recent decades" hmm ... what are the chances of that? ;) Seriously though, why is the null hypothesis not con
by plg 12y ago
"A surge of p-values between 0.040 and 0.049 in recent decades"
hmm ... what are the chances of that?
;)
Seriously though, why is the null hypothesis not considered? Wouldn't it strengthen their case, to reject the null hypothesis that this increase is just happening randomly?
- jerrytsai 12y agoTo use hypothesis testing, you first have to declare the null hypothesis and, in statistics, decide on a model by which you will test the null. In this case, can you state what the null hypothesis is and the model? It's unclear to me. There is no obvious probability distribution of p-values, and any assumption as to their distribution would be hard to defend. And that's why, I suspect, no null hypothesis is stated or tested.