In science and health, we are often looking for results that are considered to be “statistically significant.” The golden rule is if the p-value is less than 0.05, then the result is statistically ...

Finally, after many hours of packing and loading, the bags are in the car, the children in their booster seats and the snack bag in easy reach; everyone is buckled in and my hand is on the ignition ...

The first thing any scientist does before performing an experiment is to form a hypothesis about the experiment's outcome. This often takes the form of a null hypothesis, which is a statistical ...

Behold the red-flowering bush. Small but significant. Source: J. Krueger Grau, teurer Freund, ist alle Theorie— doch grün des Lebens goldner Baum. - Goethe The young researcher has a dream: Think of a ...

There are still some frequentists left. ~ Joe Austerweil, while mulling “a hairy” Bayesian problem Significance testing is seen by many of its practitioners as the haven of objectivity, the heart of ...

In an earlier article, an intuitively appealing method for estimating the number of true null hypotheses in a multiple test situation was proposed. That article presented an iterative algorithm that ...

A more-nuanced approach to reporting and interpreting data from randomized controlled trials, one that factors in the totality of the evidence, is warranted in cardiovascular medicine, according to a ...

Science is in the throes of a reproducibility crisis, and researchers, funders and publishers are increasingly worried that the scholarly literature is littered with unreliable results. Now, a group ...