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Dear R developers, Currently many (all?) test functions in R describe the alternative hypothesis, but not the the null hypothesis being tested. For example, cor.test: > require(boot) > data(mtcars) > with(mtcars, cor.test(mpg, wt, met="kendall")) Kendall's rank correlation tau data: mpg and wt z = -5.7981, p-value = 0.000000006706 alternative hypothesis: true tau is not

Dear all, I'm performing a t-test on two normal distributions with identical mean & standard deviation, and repeating this tests a very large number of times to describe an representative p value distribution in a null case. As a part of this, the program bins these values in 10 evenly distributed bins between 0 and 1 and reports the number of observations in each bin. What I have noticed