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I am quite confused about what the significance level actually means. In biology, we are testing at 5% significance level. My teacher told me that if the the chi square value is lesser than the critical value, you can accept the null hypothesis with 95% confidence. However she did an addition part with probability and found that the chi squared value was between 50% and 30% in the non significant part of the chi squared table. And the explanation for this was that the probability of null hypothesis being wrong is between 30% and 50%. So how is it that you can accept the null hypothesis with 95% confidence and have probability of the null hypothesis being wrong between 30-50%? I find the idea conflicting.
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Hi Jane,
The null hypothesis (the word "null" means kinda "not applicable" or "non-existent", so normally your null hypothesis is stated in such a way that your experiment/research is trying to prove it wrong (sorry sounds a bit stupid, but hang on - let me finish, then it will make sense!).
For any significance test (not just chi-squared test) where you work out the p value, the p value is the PROBABILITY THAT YOUR NULL HYPOTHESIS IS INAPLLICABLE (OR KINDA INCORRECT) PURELY DUE TO CHANCE so if this probability is very low [e.g. < 0.05 i.e. 5%][or ideally even lower e.g. 0.002], THEN the opposite i.e. the probability that your null hypothesis is UNTRUE for sure is very high i.e. > 95% [100 - 5] [OR > 99.8% for the example in italics above].
So, since your null hypothesis was set [deliberately] to be THE OPPOSITE of what you were trying to prove, then with a very low p value, proving it [the null hypothesis] wrong means you have proved what you originally set out to prove [with a degree of certainty inversely proprtional to the p value].
Check out both the answers on this post, too [mine and other]:
https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/sho...ND%20p%20value
If still stuck with anything, please feel free to ask.
M
The null hypothesis (the word "null" means kinda "not applicable" or "non-existent", so normally your null hypothesis is stated in such a way that your experiment/research is trying to prove it wrong (sorry sounds a bit stupid, but hang on - let me finish, then it will make sense!).
For any significance test (not just chi-squared test) where you work out the p value, the p value is the PROBABILITY THAT YOUR NULL HYPOTHESIS IS INAPLLICABLE (OR KINDA INCORRECT) PURELY DUE TO CHANCE so if this probability is very low [e.g. < 0.05 i.e. 5%][or ideally even lower e.g. 0.002], THEN the opposite i.e. the probability that your null hypothesis is UNTRUE for sure is very high i.e. > 95% [100 - 5] [OR > 99.8% for the example in italics above].
So, since your null hypothesis was set [deliberately] to be THE OPPOSITE of what you were trying to prove, then with a very low p value, proving it [the null hypothesis] wrong means you have proved what you originally set out to prove [with a degree of certainty inversely proprtional to the p value].
Check out both the answers on this post, too [mine and other]:
https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/sho...ND%20p%20value
If still stuck with anything, please feel free to ask.
M
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