INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMETRICS II ECO 306 NOUN 68 Or you could conclude that the regression result contradicts the hypothesis. You are not convinced by the explanation in (1) because the probability is so small and you think that a much more likely explanation is that is not really equal to 1. In other words, you adopt the alternative hypothesis H instead. We can summarize this decision rule mathematically by saying that we will reject the null hypothesis if
