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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 ...

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In the Neyman-Pearson theory of hypothesis testing it is customary to calculate significance levels and power functions on the assumption that the sample size is fixed. The main purpose of this paper ...

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