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Can we say anything about a measurement of an activity, say, if we get a null result or if the recorded count is so small we cannot be sure it is significant?

The answer is YES - using statistics.

We do this by defining a critical limit, which is a quantity (a count) we use to decide if a measured count is significant.

We explore the idea in this section, which deals with the following topics:

 

 

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