When it comes to deciding how significant a statistic is, Université de Montréal education professor Sébastien Béland is ...

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If you cast a wide enough net, you’ll find what looks like a prize-winning fish. But you’ll also catch a lot of seaweed, plastic debris, and maybe even a dolphin you didn’t mean to bring in. Such is ...

The pursuit of science is designed to search for significance in a maze of data. At least, that’s how it’s supposed to work. To support or refute a hypothesis, the goal is to establish statistical ...

The mid-p-value is the standard p-value for a test minus half the difference between it and the nearest lower possible value. Its smaller size lends it an obvious appeal to users-it provides a more ...

Last week a team of 72 scientists released the preprint of an article attempting to address one aspect of the reproducibility crisis, the crisis of conscience in which scientists are increasingly ...

The p value from the two-sample t-test has been disparaged for its apparent inability to provide a measure for the magnitude of the mean effect. However, by knowing the p value and the sample size, a ...

Your editorial “The FDA Returns to Its Bad Habits” (Feb. 21) explains, “Reata’s p-value was 0.014, which means there was a 1.4% chance that its positive result was a fluke.” A related, true statement ...