"Richard M." wrote: > > I know that it is possible to reject an hypothesis that is not equal to zero > (like a difference of 0.5 standard deviation or a correlation less or equal > to .20). But I wonder whether we still call such an hypothesis the "NULL" > hypothesis.
Yes. We call it the null. Twenty-five years ago I did an unsuccessful literature search to find out why the null hypothesis was called the null. I wish I'd had the good sense to ask Frank Anscombe and alas now he's no longer with us. Stephen Stigler might know. . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
