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equivalence testing  

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  • An equivalence test is a method of hypothesis testing that is a variation of the more commonly used method of significance testing. In significance testing, the idea is to test a null hypothesis that two means are equal. [Source: Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics; Equivalence Testing]

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