We argue that making accept/reject decisions on scientific hypotheses, including a recent
call for changing the canonical alpha level from p= 0.05 to p= 0.005, is deleterious for the …

Several researchers have recently argued that p values lose their meaning in exploratory
analyses due to an unknown inflation of the alpha level (eg,;). For this argument to be …

Researchers have been concerned with internal and external validity for decades, and the
discussion continues. The present proposal is that there are less important and more …

Although the null hypothesis significance testing procedure is problematic, many still favor
the use of p-values as indicating the state of evidence against the model used to generate …

Null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) has had and continues to have an adverse
effect on marketing research. The most recent American Statistical Association (ASA) …

,) proposed that when researchers base their statistical analyses on the idiosyncratic
characteristics of a specific sample (eg, a nonlinear transformation of a variable because it is …

Hemodynamic forces play an important role in the non-uniform distribution of atherosclerotic
lesions. Endothelial cells are exposed simultaneously to fluid wall shear stress (WSS) and …

A statistically significant research finding should not be defined as a P-value of 0.05 or less,
because this definition does not take into account study power. Statistical significance was …

For decades, waxing and waning, there has been an ongoing debate on the values and
problems of the ubiquitously used null hypothesis significance test (NHST). With the start of …

Surface sampling and laboratory analysis for soot/combustion particulates was conducted
following a fire at an education/research facility in the southwest United States. This …