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Significance Testing

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-025540

Evaluation of a null hypothesis that there is no relationship between two variables or no difference between them. They are not appropriate for observational studies due to pseudo replication and non-random assignment of sites to treatments. Furthermore, testing of null hypotheses is not part of causal analysis.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ENV-025540
FieldEnvironment
ReferencesCADDIS
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-025540",
  "term": "Significance Testing",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "Evaluation of a null hypothesis that there is no relationship between two variables or no difference between them. They are not appropriate for observational studies due to pseudo replication and non-random assignment of sites to treatments. Furthermore, testing of null hypotheses is not part of causal analysis.",
  "references": [
    "CADDIS"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/significance-testing/"
}

Record 25,540 of 30,736 in Environment terminology (MLC-0121). Request the full dataset.