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The reporting of statistical significance in scientific journals: A reflexion

open access: yesDemographic Research, 2008
Scientific journals in most empirical disciplines have regulations about how authors should report the precision of their estimates of model parameters and other model elements.
Jan M. Hoem
doaj  

For a proper use of frequentist inferential statistics in public health

open access: yesGlobal Epidemiology
As widely noted in the literature and by international bodies such as the American Statistical Association, severe misinterpretations of P-values, confidence intervals, and statistical significance are sadly common in public health.
Alessandro Rovetta   +2 more
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Statistical significance tests. [PDF]

open access: yesBritish Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 1982
Abstract A broad account is given of statistical significance tests outlining their role and their limitations in the careful analysis of data.
openaire   +2 more sources

Statistical significance tests.

open access: yes, 2016
Statistical significance tests.
Mariusz Oszust (3163356)
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A Frequent Misuse of Significance Tests [PDF]

open access: yes
Economists sometimes interpret the failure of a significance test to disconfirm a hypothesis as evidence that this hypothesis is valid. Six examples of this are cited from recent journals.
Thomas Mayer
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Introduction to the theory of statistics. Введение в теорию стaтистики

open access: yesХабаршысы. Экономика сериясы, 2016
This article discusses the history of statistics. Destinations such as mathematical and descriptive. The need for statistics as a science. It describes the three basic values of statistics.
Zh. K. Kupenova   +2 more
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Statistical Significance Versus Clinical Importance of Observed Effect Sizes: What Do P Values and Confidence Intervals Really Represent?

open access: yesAnesthesia and Analgesia, 2018
Effect size measures are used to quantify treatment effects or associations between variables. Such measures, of which >70 have been described in the literature, include unstandardized and standardized differences in means, risk differences, risk ratios,
P. Schober, S. M. Bossers, L. Schwarte
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Retire Statistical Significance Survey

open access: yes, 2023
Petitions have a long history of being used for political, social, ethical and injustice issues; however, it is unclear how/whether they should be implemented in scientific argumentation. Recently, an extremely influential commentary published in Nature (
Tom E Hardwicke, John Ioannidis
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The statistical significance filter leads to overoptimistic expectations of replicability

open access: yesJournal of Memory and Language, 2018
It is well-known in statistics (e.g., Gelman & Carlin, 2014) that treating a result as publishable just because the p-value is less than 0.05 leads to overoptimistic expectations of replicability.
S. Vasishth   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Cult of Statistical Significance [PDF]

open access: yes
This article takes issue with a recent book by Ziliak and McCloskey (2008) of the same title. Ziliak and McCloskey argue that statistical significance testing is a barrier rather than a booster for empirical research in many fields and should therefore ...
Walter Kraemer
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