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Philosophical Preconditions Guide Null Hypothesis Significance Testing in Empirical Psychology
Nordicum-MediterraneumTo mathematize is closely related to the ideal of scientific objectivity, claiming bias-free results. In this respect, mathematization may substantiate the belief that significance testing could prove or disprove a hypothesis, since it is considered bias-
Fredrik Dreyer Moe
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Recommendations for statistical analysis involving null hypothesis significance testing [PDF]
Sports Biomechanics, 2020 The peer review process of original research articles generally requires authors/researchers to adopt accepted scientific methods, identify testable hypotheses and test those hypotheses using appropriate and established statistical methods. In Sports Biomechanics, authors are encouraged to submit original research articles that conform to these norms ...
Andrew J. Harrison +9 more
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The Harm Done to Reproducibility by the Culture of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing [PDF]
American Journal of Epidemiology, 2017 In the last few years, stakeholders in the scientific community have raised alarms about a perceived lack of reproducibility of scientific results. In reaction, guidelines for journals have been promulgated and grant applicants have been asked to address the rigor and reproducibility of their proposed projects.
Timothy L Lash, Lash Timothy L
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A tutorial on a practical Bayesian alternative to null-hypothesis significance testing [PDF]
Behavior Research Methods, 2011 Null-hypothesis significance testing remains the standard inferential tool in cognitive science despite its serious disadvantages. Primary among these is the fact that the resulting probability value does not tell the researcher what he or she usually wants to know: How probable is a hypothesis, given the obtained data?
Michael E J Masson, Masson Michael E J
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BMC Psychiatry, 2018 Background Despite its popularity as an inferential framework, classical null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) has several restrictions. Bayesian analysis can be used to complement NHST, however, this approach has been underutilized largely due to ...
Daniel S. Quintana, Donald R. Williams
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Interpreting null findings from trials of alcohol brief interventions
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2014 The effectiveness of alcohol brief intervention (ABI) has been established by a succession of meta-analyses but, because the effects of ABI are small, null findings from randomized controlled trials are often reported and can sometimes lead to skepticism
Nick eHeather
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Design and analysis of behavioral intervention studies: A Bayesian approach. [PDF]
PLoS ONETo study the effect of a behavioral intervention, it should be compared to a control or an existing treatment in an intervention study. There exist many guidelines in the literature about the design and analysis of intervention studies, including ...
Camila Natalia Barragan Ibañez +3 more
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The posterior probability of a null hypothesis given a statistically significant result [PDF]
Tutorials in Quantitative Methods for Psychology, 2022 When researchers carry out a null hypothesis significance test, it is tempting to assume that a statistically significant result lowers Prob(H0), the probability of the null hypothesis being true.
Schad, Daniel J., Vasishth, Shravan
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The state of the art of hypothesis testing in the social sciences
Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2022 Over many decades, one seemingly fatal critique after another has been launched against the use of social sciences' dominant practice of null-hypothesis significance testing, also known as NHST.
Arjen van Witteloostuijn +1 more
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The reporting of p values, confidence intervals and statistical significance in Preventive Veterinary Medicine (1997–2017) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 Background Despite much discussion in the epidemiologic literature surrounding the use of null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) for inferences, the reporting practices of veterinary researchers have not been examined.
Locksley L. McV. Messam +5 more
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