A century ago, two oddly domestic puzzles helped set the rules for what modern science treats as "real": a Guinness brewer charged with quality control and a British lady insisting she can taste ...
You see it in the news all the time. A headline declares a new coffee-drinking habit is “significantly” linked to better health, or a new marketing strategy “significantly” increases sales. The word ...
Introduction The commonly used frequentist paradigm of null hypothesis statistics testing with its reliance on the p-value and the corresponding notion of ‘statistical significance’ has been under ...
In the early 1920s, a trio of scientists sat down for a break at Rothamsted agricultural research station in Hertfordshire, UK. One of them, a statistician by the name of Ronald Fisher, poured a cup ...
Statistical significance is used to determine if stock price movements are likely due to random chance or an external event. A recent survey of 46 court decisions found that while many applied the 95 ...
Objectives We estimated the extent of the disparity between statistical significance and clinical importance in published randomised controlled trials (RCTs), and explored factors associated with this ...
There has been an important move away from the term “statistical significance” in the scientific and statistical community. The desire to “retire 0.05” is rooted in improving scientific reporting by ...
Communicating the “significance” of statistics in scientific research is often plagued by the fact that the everyday usage of “significant” is very different than the technical meaning of that term.
‘Experimental design’: these words signal a section of a research paper that many readers might be inclined to scan fleetingly, before moving on to the actual findings. But a study in Nature this week ...
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