GHOST: An Officially Recommended Practice

Bruno Lecoutre and Jacques Poitevineau
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Bruno Lecoutre: Universite de Rouen, CNRS
Jacques Poitevineau: Université Pierre et Marie Curie, CNRS

Chapter Chapter 4 in The Significance Test Controversy Revisited, 2022, pp 33-39 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract A brief account of the misuses and abuses of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing [NHST] is given. The most often recommended “good statistical practice,” which we call Guidelined Hypotheses Official Significance Testing [GHOST], is examined. GHOST is a hybrid practice that appears as an amalgam of Fisherian and Neyman-Pearsonian views. It does not ban the use of significance testing, but the choice of the sample size should be justified, and estimates of the size of effects and confidence intervals should also be reported.

Keywords: Clinical trials; Guidelined hypotheses official significance testing; Hybrid logic of statistical inference; Misuses of significance tests; Null hypothesis significance testing; Recommended statistical practices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-65705-8_4

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