Equivalence testing is important, if you expect a new treatment to be equally efficaceous as the standard treatment. This new treatment may still be better suitable for practice, if it has fewer adverse effects or other ancillary advantages.
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Cleophas, T. J., & Zwinderman, A. H. (2011). Equivalence Tests. In Statistical Analysis of Clinical Data on a Pocket Calculator (pp. 17–17). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1211-9_6
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