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What Have We (Not) Learnt from Millions of Scientific Papers with P Values?

Authors :
John P. A. Ioannidis
Source :
The American Statistician. 73:20-25
Publication Year :
2019
Publisher :
Informa UK Limited, 2019.

Abstract

P values linked to null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) is the most widely (mis)used method of statistical inference. Empirical data suggest that across the biomedical literature (1990–2015)...

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Subjects :
Statistics and Probability
Empirical data
General Mathematics
05 social sciences
01 natural sciences
050105 experimental psychology
010104 statistics & probability
Statistical significance
Statistics
Statistical inference
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
p-value
0101 mathematics
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
Mathematics
Statistical hypothesis testing

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ISSN :
15372731 and 00031305
Volume :
73
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
The American Statistician
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........e1810b7112d0561e607107f4b8c542ce

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