Timeline for What does "Scientists rise up against statistical significance" mean? (Comment in Nature)
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| Mar 30, 2019 at 19:58 | comment | added | Martin J.H. | Yes, but why even bother discussing such a hypothesis? You can just state the measured effect size $\theta\pm\delta\theta$ and then discuss what the best/worst case ramifications are. This is how it is typically done in physics, for example when measuring the mass-to-charge difference between proton and antiproton. The authors could have chosen to formulate a null hypothesis (maybe, to follow your example, that the absolute difference is greater than some $\Delta$) and proceeded to test it, but there is little added value in such a discussion. | |
| Mar 30, 2019 at 19:35 | history | edited | Martin J.H. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 23, 2019 at 21:48 | comment | added | Alexis | That depends on one's null hypothesis. For example, rejecting $H_{0}:|\theta|\ge \Delta$ provides evidence of an absence of effect larger than an arbitrarily small $\Delta$. | |
| Mar 22, 2019 at 11:11 | history | edited | Martin J.H. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 22, 2019 at 9:44 | history | answered | Martin J.H. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |