LOS ANGELES -- The zeros kept piling up, the pressure kept building, and then, with the bases loaded and two outs in Thursday's 11th inning, Orion Kerkering, the Philadelphia Phillies' young reliever, ...

It was a garden-variety lawsuit in the state of New Hampshire. A Windham couple hired a contractor to renovate their house, giving him a hefty down payment for the work. After they scaled back their ...

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Hypothesis testing is a formal procedure for investigating our ideas about the world using statistics. It is most often used by researchers to test predictions, called hypotheses. The first step in ...