4.5 How important is hypothesis testing in the production of data?
Although it is possible to propose null and alternative hypotheses for a range of studies not all studies are conducted this way.
A test of significance is a statistical method of comparing null and alternative hypotheses, but not all studies are framed in terms of null and alternative hypothesis, as the following sections will show.
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