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" If this experimental drug has no effect on heart disease (our null hypothesis), how likely is it that 91 out of 100 patients getting the drug would show improvement compared with only 49 out of 100 patients getting a placebo? "

Charles Wheelan , Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data


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Charles Wheelan quote : If this experimental drug has no effect on heart disease (our null hypothesis), how likely is it that 91 out of 100 patients getting the drug would show improvement compared with only 49 out of 100 patients getting a placebo?