Re: Who "invented" the null hypthesis?



Dieter Folz wrote:

Apart from the allegation of cheating to just choose an H_0 to
pretend to do a falsification, I had more and more problems to explain
the concept clearly, and had more and more the impression that I don't
understand it myself correctly nor sufficient. Esp. I have no idea what
the real reason or basic idea of the null hypothesis is, what the
exact, specific and datailed ideas, mathematical and logical
backgrounds are.

Who "invented" the null hypothesis, whre does it come from, which
concepts are the basis for it? Hope, somebody can help me out.

See this article (it's much better than the same author's earlier article
on the same topic in American Statistician):

Author(s): Hubbard, R
Title: Blurring the distinctions between p's and alpha's in psychological
research
Source: THEORY & PSYCHOLOGY, 14 (3): 295-327 JUN 2004

Through your university, school or library, you may have online access to it
in PDF format from either:

http://www.swetswise.com/eAccess/viewAbstract.do?articleID=20094688&titleID=201074
http://tap.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/14/3/295
or
http://md3.csa.com/ids70/linking.php?linktype=FulltextPDF&docid=sage-set-c%2FTAP_2004_14_3_cln.wais+38631+sagepsyc-set-c&SID=19ebc298f25d2322b4a076ae1db24802

--
Karl Ove Hufthammer
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