CarlShulman comments on Against NHST - Less Wrong

57 Post author: gwern 21 December 2012 04:45AM

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Comment author: CarlShulman 21 December 2012 07:54:05PM 3 points [-]

setting up a null hypothesis and an alternative hypothesis calculating a p-value (possibly via a t-test or more complex alternatives like ANOVA) and accepting the null if an arbitrary threshold is passed.

Typo?

Comment author: gwern 21 December 2012 08:28:25PM 0 points [-]

If you run together an enumerated list like that, of course it looks weird...

Comment author: CarlShulman 21 December 2012 08:53:19PM 6 points [-]

"Accepting the null if the threshold is passed." Not rejecting?

Comment author: gwern 21 December 2012 08:57:14PM 2 points [-]

Oh. Yeah, should be rejecting.