February, 2003
© 2000, 2001, 2003 Scott S. Emerson, M.D., Ph.D.
Session 1- Fixed Sample Design: 56
Decision Theoretic Approach
The statistical hypotheses can be defined by either the hypotheses rejected or the hypotheses accepted
Classical hypothesis testing is described in terms of the hypotheses rejected
·In finite sample sizes, these hypotheses must not be contiguous if we maintain a fixed level of statistical evidence (see later)
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If we describe the hypotheses being accepted, those hypotheses will overlap