In criticism of the null hypothesis statistical test.

Comments on the article by R. L. Hagen (see record 1997-02239-002) in praise of the null hypothesis statistical test (NHST). NHST, is, in fact, a probabilistic imitation of modus tollens (or of the mathematical procedure of proof by contradiction). However, once the reasoning is made probabilistic, the inference is no longer valid. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)