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Except the Frequentist would test the null hypothesis: what's the probability the friend doesn't answer if the friend is not upset?



Given that the alternative hypothesis is usually defined as the complement of the null hypothesis (HA = 1 - H0) this doesn't make much of a difference, though.


Frequentist:

    H1: answer ~ upset + error
    H0: answer ~ error
I find many people have trouble expressing a reasonable hypothesis / null-hypothesis pair. In fact, I'd bet that a good chunk of folks would try to make "upset" be the dependent variable in the phone call scenario.




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