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A study unable to find a difference is not the same as an equivalent study. For example, a study of 3 subjects does not find a significant difference simply because the sample size is too small. Equivalence testing is particularly important for studying the treatment of diseases for which a placebo control would unethical. In the situation a new treatment must be compared with standard treatment. The latter comparison is at risk of finding little differences.
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Cleophas, T.J., Zwinderman, A.H., Cleophas, T.F. (2002). Equivalence Testing. In: Statistics Applied to Clinical Trials. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0337-7_4
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