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| | The rigid focus on statistical significance encourages researchers to choose data and methods that yield statistical significance for some desired (or simply publishable) result, or that yield statistical non-significance for an undesired result, such as potential side effects of drugs - thereby invalidating conclusions ... Again, we are not advocating a ban on P values,...
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| | A key recognition among those who write on the statistical crisis in science is that the pressure to publish attention-getting articles can incentivize researchers to produce eye-catching but inadequately scrutinized claims. We may see much the same sensationalism in broadcasting metastatistical research, especially if it takes the form of scapegoating or banning statistical significance. A...
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| | "[C]onfusion about the foundations of the subject is responsible, in my opinion, for much of the misuse of the statistics that one meets in fields of application such as medicine, psychology, sociology, economics, and so forth." (George Barnard 1985, p. 2) "Relevant clarifications of the nature and roles of statistical evidence in scientific research may
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| Academic blog about quantitative finance, programming, maths.