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Chow's defense of null-hypothesis testing: Too traditional?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1998

Robert W. Frick
Robert W. Frick
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11790 rfrick@sunysb.edu www.psy.sunysb.edu/rfrick/
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Abstract

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I disagree with several of Chow's traditional descriptions and justifications of null hypothesis testing: (1) accepting the null hypothesis whenever p > .05; (2) random sampling from a population; (3) the frequentist interpretation of probability; (4) having the null hypothesis generate both a probability distribution and a complement of the desired conclusion; (5) assuming that researchers must fix their sample size before performing their study.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , April 1998 , pp. 199
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© 1998 Cambridge University Press