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Can you show me an example of this? I am a nurse, can you show me an example from the health care field to help me to understand this?

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Using a health care point of view, this posting will look at the relationship between hypothesis testing and statistical significance.

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What is the relationship between hypothesis testing and statistical significance?

You actually look at the result of a hypothesis test to see if it is statistically significant. Let me elaborate.

You are conducting an experiment. For example, you want to know if the administration of 100 mg of a new drug will reduce the condition yyy in patients.

So you take 2 groups of patients - one group you don't give them anything (the control group) ...

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