Failing to reject the null hypothesis and accepting the null hypothesis do not refer to the same conclusion.

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Failing to reject the null hypothesis means there is not enough evidence to support the alternative hypothesis, while accepting the null hypothesis implies that the null hypothesis is proven to be true, which is not a conclusion typically drawn in statistical tests due to the nature of hypothesis testing.

Failing to Reject the Null Hypothesis and Accepting the Null