Has it been a while since you’ve thought about what a p-value says, and what it doesn’t say?

An article in this month’s issue of Nature features Stephen Ziliak, Economist at Roosevelt University in Chicago. The article discusses the ways that p-values are commonly misused. Ziliak is quoted as saying “P values are not doing their job, because they can’t.”

http://www.nature.com/news/scientific-method-statistical-errors-1.14700

If you find this article intriguing, I recommend Ziliak’s book, “The Cult of Statistical Significance“. It’s available on Amazon and through the university library system.

-DU

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