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The word “hypothesis” has celebrity status. From Ancient Greece through the Enlightenment to Total Quality Management, the process of hypothesis testing provokes thinkers and researchers to elucidate ...

The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Jun., 1953), pp. 220-238 (19 pages) In this paper two closely related heuristic principles of test construction (to be explained in Section 3), ...