Critique my null and alternative hypothesis (beginner)
I'm new to writting these, so I want critique on if I'm doing them correctly and how I can write them better.
"You want to know if a drug works better than a placebo for it at increasing the number of the number of white blood cells."
$H_{0}$ = The population of white blood cells when given the drug is not significantly different to the population of white blood cells after taking the drug.
$H_{a}$ = The drug is statistically significantly better at increasing the number of white blood cells in the population.
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