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A frequent misuse of significance tests

Economists sometimes interpret the failure of a significance test to disconfirm a hypothesis as evidence that this hypothesis is valid. Six examples of this are cited from recent journals. But this is a as interpretation of what significance tests show. While in general it is correct that every failure to disconfirm a hypothesis adds to its credibility, the term disconfirm is defined differently for this purpose than it is in the context of significance tests.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Working Paper ; No. 01-5

Classification
Wirtschaft
Subject
significance tests
t values
t coefficients
confirmation
Statistischer Test
Theorie

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Mayer, Thomas
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
University of California, Department of Economics
(where)
Davis, CA
(when)
2001

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Mayer, Thomas
  • University of California, Department of Economics

Time of origin

  • 2001

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