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@@ -8,18 +8,18 @@ Overview of hyppo_
 .. _hyppo: https://hyppo.neurodata.io/
 
 ``hyppo`` (**HYP**\ othesis Testing in **P**\ yth\ **O**\ n, pronounced
-"Hippo") is an open-source software package for hypothesis testing.
+"Hippo") is an open-source software package for multivariate hypothesis testing.
 
 Motivation
 ----------
 
 With the increase in the amount of data in many fields, a method to
 consistently and efficiently decipher relationships within high dimensional
 data sets is important. Because many modern datasets are multivariate,
-univariate independence tests are not applicable. While many multivariate
-independence tests have R packages available, the interfaces are inconsistent
+univariate tests are not applicable. Many multivariate
+hypothesis tests also have R packages available, but the interfaces are inconsistent
 and most are not available in Python. ``hyppo`` is an extensive Python library
-that includes many state of the art multivariate independence testing
+that includes many state of the art multivariate hypothesis testing
 procedures using a common interface. The package is easy-to-use and is
 flexible enough to enable future extensions.
 
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ History
 
 ``hyppo`` is a rebranding of ``mgcpy``, which was founded in September 2018.
 The original version was designed and written by Satish Palaniappan, Sambit
-Panda Junhao Xiong, Sandhya Ramachandran, and Ronak Mehtra. This new version
+Panda, Junhao Xiong, Sandhya Ramachandran, and Ronak Mehtra. This new version
 was written by Sambit Panda.
 
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