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Hypothesis testing assesses whether data are inconsistent with a given hypothesis (usually a null hypothesis of no effect).

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On the corrections for multiple comparisons

I don't think that the fact that you have found significant differences in all fifteen of your comparisons makes a difference. To maintain the familywise error rate, I would be tempted to simply apply …
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Hypothesis test for summary data involving percentages

500 patients had an operation to remove stomach cancer. There exists a clinical guideline that suggests that a minimum of ten lymph nodes should be removed during the operation. I am therefore interes …
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Help performing hypothesis tests automatically on a large data set in R

I have a data frame in R with 100 variables (columns) and 100 observations (rows). Each row is a patient; the columns are different variables such as gender, height, body-mass index, etc. I know that …
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Hypothesis test for difference in medians among more than two samples

Question The test scores of three groups of people are saved as separate vectors in R. set.seed(1) group1 <- rnorm(100, mean = 75, sd = 10) group2 <- rnorm(100, mean = 85, sd = 10) group3 <- rnorm(1 …
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