At 02:29 PM 4/11/00 -0300, Robert Dawson wrote:
> The problem is that failure to reject means *either* that the null is
>true *or* that the sample size too small *or* both;
"or" both says then ... that the null IS true .... AND that sample size is
TOO small ...
>>>>> too small for what???
>and a classical
>hypothesis test on its own does not tell you which.
>
> -Robert Dawson
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