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Traditionally when students first learn about the analysisof experiments, there is a strong focus on hypothesis testing and makingdecisions based on p-values. Hypothesis testing is important fordetermining if there are statistically significant effects. However, readersof this book should not place undo emphasis on p-values. Instead, theyshould realize that p-values are affected by sample size, and that a lowp-value does not necessarily suggest a large effect or a practically meaningfuleffect. Summary statistics, plots, effect size statistics, and practicalconsiderations should be used. The goal is to determine: a) statisticalsignificance, b) effect size, c) practical importance. These are all differentconcepts, and they will be explored below.

Statistical inference

Most of what we’ve covered in this book so far is aboutproducing descriptive statistics: calculating means and medians, plotting datain various ways, and producing confidence intervals. The bulk of the rest ofthis book will cover statistical inference: using statistical tests to drawsome conclusion about the data. We’ve already done this a little bit inearlier chapters by using confidence intervals to conclude if means aredifferent or not among groups.

As Dr. Nic mentions in her article in the “References andfurther reading” section, this is the part where people sometimes get stumped. It is natural for most of us to use summary statistics or plots, but jumping tostatistical inference needs a little change in perspective. The idea of usingsome statistical test to answer a question isn’t a difficult concept, but someof the following discussion gets a little theoretical. The video from theStatistics Learning Center in the “References and further reading” section doesa good job of explaining the basis of statistical inference.

One important thing to gain from this chapter is anunderstanding of how to use the p-value, alpha, and decision ruleto test the null hypothesis. But once you are comfortable with that, you willwant to return to this chapter to have a better understanding of the theorybehind this process.

Another important thing is to understand the limitations ofrelying on p-values, and why it is important to assess the size ofeffects and weigh practical considerations.

Packages used in this chapter

The packages used in this chapter include:

• lsr

The following commands will install these packages if theyare not already installed:

if(!require(lsr)){install.packages('lsr')}

Hypothesis testing

The null and alternative hypotheses

The statistical tests in this book rely on testing a nullhypothesis, which has a specific formulation for each test. The nullhypothesis always describes the case where e.g. two groups are not different orthere is no correlation between two variables, etc.

The alternative hypothesis is the contrary of the nullhypothesis, and so describes the cases where there is a difference among groupsor a correlation between two variables, etc.

Notice that the definitions of null hypothesis and alternativehypothesis have nothing to do with what you want to find or don't want to find,or what is interesting or not interesting, or what you expect to find or whatyou don’t expect to find. If you were comparing the height of men and women,the null hypothesis would be that the height of men and the height of womenwere not different. Yet, you might find it surprising if you found thishypothesis to be true for some population you were studying. Likewise, if youwere studying the income of men and women, the null hypothesis would be thatthe income of men and women are not different, in the population you are studying. In this case you might be hoping the null hypothesis is true, though youmight be unsurprised if the alternative hypothesis were true. In anycase, the null hypothesis will take the form that there is no differencebetween groups, there is no correlation between two variables, or there is noeffect of this variable in our model.

p-valuedefinition

Most of the tests in this book rely on using a statisticcalled the p-value to evaluate if we should reject, or fail to reject,the null hypothesis.

Given the assumption that the null hypothesis is true,the p-value is defined as the probability of obtaining a result equal toor more extreme than what was actually observed in the data.

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We’ll unpack this definition in a little bit.

Decision rule

The p-value for the given data will be determined byconducting the statistical test.

This p-value is then compared to a pre-determinedvalue alpha. Most commonly, an alpha value of 0.05 is used, butthere is nothing magic about this value.

If the p-value for the test is less than alpha,we reject the null hypothesis.

If the p-value is greater than or equal to alpha,we fail to reject the null hypothesis.

Coin flipping example

For an example of using the p-value for hypothesistesting, imagine you have a coin you will toss 100 times. The null hypothesisis that the coin is fair—that is, that it is equally likely that the coin willland on heads as land on tails. The alternative hypothesis is that the coin isnot fair. Let’s say for this experiment you throw the coin 100 times and itlands on heads 95 times out of those hundred. The p-value in this casewould be the probability of getting 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, or 100 heads, or 0, 1,2, 3, 4, or 5 heads, assuming that the null hypothesis is true.

This is what we call a two-sided test, since we are testingboth extremes suggested by our data: getting 95 or greater heads or getting 95or greater tails. In most cases we will use two sided tests.

You can imagine that the p-value for this data willbe quite small. If the null hypothesis is true, and the coin is fair, therewould be a low probability of getting 95 or more heads or 95 or more tails.

Using a binomial test, the p-value is < 0.0001.

(Actually, R reports it as < 2.2e-16, which is shorthandfor the number in scientific notation, 2.2 x 10^-16, which is0.00000000000000022, with 15 zeros after the decimal point.)

Assuming an alpha of 0.05, since the p-valueis less than alpha, we reject the null hypothesis. That is, we concludethat the coin is not fair.

binom.test(5, 100, 0.5)

Exact binomial test
number of successes = 5, number of trials = 100, p-value < 2.2e-16
alternative hypothesis: true probability of success is not equal to 0.5

Passing and failing example

As another example, imagine we are considering twoclassrooms, and we have counts of students who passed a certain exam. We wantto know if one classroom had statistically more passes or fai

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