When and How to Interpret Null Results in NIBS: A Taxonomy Based on Prior Expectations and Experimental Design
Experiments often challenge the null hypothesis that an intervention, for instance application of non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS), has no effect on an outcome measure. In conventional statistics, a positive result rejects that hypothesis, but a null result is meaningless. Informally, however,...
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2018-12-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Neuroscience |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnins.2018.00915/full |