Conclusions True or false: In hypothesis testing, it is never valid to form a conclusion of supporting the null hypothesis.

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It is true that in a hypothesis test, the null hypothesis is never supported/accepted when writing the conclusion.

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Given information

The following statement is considered:

In hypothesis testing, it is never valid to form a conclusion of supporting the null hypothesis.

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Decision about the null hypothesis

It is a rule that if the p-value is greater than the significance level, it is never concluded that the null hypothesis is accepted/supported.

Rather, the correct way of writing the conclusion is that the null hypothesis fails to be reject.

Therefore, the given statement that it is invalid to form a conclusion that the null hypothesis is supported is true.

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