Re: [R] Null and Alternate hypothesis for Significance test

2008-08-21 Thread Nitin Agrawal
e specific, i.e that their means are different by at least > something or that certain distance between their distributions is bigger > than something, etc. and such hypotheses can be tested (and rejected). > > > --- On Fri, 22/8/08, Nitin Agrawal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAI

[R] Null and Alternate hypothesis for Significance test

2008-08-21 Thread Nitin Agrawal
Hi, I had a question about specifying the Null hypothesis in a significance test. Advance apologies if this has already been asked previously or is a naive question. I have two samples A and B, and I want to test whether A and B come from the same distribution. The default Null hypothesis would be

[R] Null and Alternate hypothesis for Significance test

2008-08-21 Thread Nitin Agrawal
Hi, I had a question about specifying the Null hypothesis in a significance test. Advance apologies if this has already been asked previously or is a naive question. I have two samples A and B, and I want to test whether A and B come from the same distribution. The default Null hypothesis would be