Three Recommendations for Improving the Use of p-Values

Daniel Benjamin and James O. Berger

The American Statistician, 2019, vol. 73, issue S1, 186-191

Abstract: Researchers commonly use p-values to answer the question: How strongly does the evidence favor the alternative hypothesis relative to the null hypothesis? p-Values themselves do not directly answer this question and are often misinterpreted in ways that lead to overstating the evidence against the null hypothesis. Even in the “post p

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2018.1543135

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