Although the statistical tools most often used by researchers in the field of psychology over
the last 25 years are based on frequentist statistics, it is often claimed that the alternative …

Several researchers have suggested that learning and using a second language requires
domain-general executive functions, and many have shown that bilinguals outperform …

Here, we summarise the unresolved debate about p value and its dichotomisation. We
present the statement of the American Statistical Association against the misuse of statistical …

This longitudinal study examined changes in Computational Thinking (CT) skills in first and
second grade students exposed to a developmentally appropriate coding curriculum. The …

Bayesian hypothesis testing presents an attractive alternative to p value hypothesis testing.
Part I of this series outlined several advantages of Bayesian hypothesis testing, including the …

Bayesian parameter estimation and Bayesian hypothesis testing present attractive
alternatives to classical inference using confidence intervals and p values. In part I of this …

Rationale: If the risk of ventilator-induced lung injury in acute respiratory distress syndrome
(ARDS) is causally determined by driving pressure rather than by Vt, then the effect of …

The sample size necessary to obtain a desired level of statistical power depends in part on
the population value of the effect size, which is, by definition, unknown. A common approach …

In the practice of data analysis, there is a conceptual distinction between hypothesis testing,
on the one hand, and estimation with quantified uncertainty on the other. Among frequentists …

No scientific conclusion follows automatically from a statistically non-significant result, yet
people routinely use non-significant results to guide conclusions about the status of theories …