The False Positive Risk: A Proposal Concerning What to Do About p-Values

David Colquhoun

The American Statistician, 2019, vol. 73, issue S1, 192-201

Abstract: It is widely acknowledged that the biomedical literature suffers from a surfeit of false positive results. Part of the reason for this is the persistence of the myth that observation of p

Date: 2019
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