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There's a very easy way to do null hypothesis testing. Take the sha256 sum of all your experimental data. If the first fives bits of the hash are 0, then you c
by murbard2 12y ago
There's a very easy way to do null hypothesis testing.
Take the sha256 sum of all your experimental data. If the first fives bits of the hash are 0, then you can reject the null hypothesis with p < 3%
- martinko 12y agoWhat is a sha256 SUM?
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- murbard2 12y agoa cryptogtaphic digest, http://linux.die.net/man/1/sha256sum http://linux.die.net/man/1/sha256sum The message is a joke intended to make people think about limitations of null hypothesis techniques. On the one hand, the technique I describe is statistically rigorous, on the other hand, it is stupid because it has no power and is always random. However, in the Popperian framework of null hypothesis testing, there is no way to even express the fact that this test is worse than any other.