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What is Significance tests?

Also known as: significance test · null hypothesis

Definition 33.14 University Chemistry — Year 3 · Chapter 33 — Lab Techniques III: Research Practice

A significance test decides whether data are compatible with a null hypothesis, usually that there is no difference or no effect, at a chosen level of risk of rejecting it wrongly (often 5 %).

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