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Welcome to studying statistics! This area of the website is designed to support Making Sense of Statistics. This section acts as a brief guide to null hypothesis (significance) tests. You will be taken through the basics of such tests and then be able to have a go at some yourself.

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• Testing hypotheses
• Hypothesis test 1: an experiment on telepathy
• Hypothesis test 2: the shuffle test
• Basic format of hypothesis test
• The interpretation of hypothesis tests
• Exercises
• Useful resources

This content has been written by Michael Wood author of Making Sense of Statistics