In order to test a hypothesis in traditional (“frequentist”) statistics, you posit an alternative called the “null hypothesis”. The null hypothesis should be chosen so as to represent the default ...

Technologies of measuring millions of quantities at once have been rapidly developed and used in biological and biomedical research and other fields in the past decade. Yet a key issue remains ...

Hypothesis testing is a formal procedure for investigating our ideas about the world using statistics. It is most often used by researchers to test predictions, called hypotheses. The first step in ...