In various contexts, for practical, philosophical, and logical reasons, there is a default assumption. In the criminal justice system, for example, someone is presumed innocent until proven guilty. T ...
Finally, after many hours of packing and loading, the bags are in the car, the children in their booster seats and the snack bag in easy reach; everyone is buckled in and my hand is on the ignition ...
P values indicate how incompatible the observed data may be with a null hypothesis; “P<0.05” implies that a treatment effect or exposure association larger than that observed would occur less than 5% ...
Geoff Cumming has received funding from the Australian Research Council. For researchers there’s a lot that turns on the p value, the number used to determine whether a result is statistically ...
Behold the red-flowering bush. Small but significant. Source: J. Krueger Grau, teurer Freund, ist alle Theorie— doch grün des Lebens goldner Baum. - Goethe The young researcher has a dream: Think of a ...
There are still some frequentists left. ~ Joe Austerweil, while mulling “a hairy” Bayesian problem Significance testing is seen by many of its practitioners as the haven of objectivity, the heart of ...
The Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA) has long been considered the premier journal of statistical science. Science Citation Index reported JASA was the most highly cited journal ...
A more-nuanced approach to reporting and interpreting data from randomized controlled trials, one that factors in the totality of the evidence, is warranted in cardiovascular medicine, according to a ...
Science is in the throes of a reproducibility crisis, and researchers, funders and publishers are increasingly worried that the scholarly literature is littered with unreliable results. Now, a group ...
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