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by gweinberg 833 days ago
That's not the way statistics work. You won't be able to definitively state there was an increase in the number of cancers based on statistics if the actual increase was smaller than the uncertainty in the number of cancers you would expect. That doesn't mean the increase was zero.
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>That's not the way statistics work.

Testing the null hypothesis is exactly the way that statistics works.