Three-decision methods: A sensible formulation of significance tests—and much else

KM Rice, CA Krakauer - Annual Review of Statistics and Its …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
For real-valued parameters, significance tests can be motivated as three-decision methods,
in which we either assert the sign of the parameter above or below a specified null value, or …

Statistical significance and its critics: practicing damaging science, or damaging scientific practice?

DG Mayo, D Hand - Synthese, 2022 - Springer
While the common procedure of statistical significance testing and its accompanying
concept of p-values have long been surrounded by controversy, renewed concern has been …

[HTML][HTML] Alternatives to the P value: connotations of significance

J In, DK Lee - Korean Journal of Anesthesiology, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The statistical significance of a clinical trial analysis result is determined by a mathematical
calculation and probability based on null hypothesis significance testing. However, statistical …

How and why alpha should depend on sample size: A Bayesian-frequentist compromise for significance testing

JN Wulff, L Taylor - Strategic Organization, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
In management research, fixed alpha levels in statistical testing are ubiquitous. However, in
highly powered studies, they can lead to Lindley's paradox, a situation where the null …

The statistics wars and intellectual conflicts of interest

DG Mayo - Conservation Biology, 2021 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
How should journal editors react to heated disagreements about statistical significance tests
in applied fields, such as conservation science, where statistical inferences often are the …

[PDF][PDF] p-value based statistical significance tests: Concepts, misuses, critiques, solutions and beyond

WJ Zhang - Computational Ecology and Software, 2022 - researchgate.net
The p-value is at the heart of statistical significance tests, a very important issue related to
the role of statistical inference in advancing scientific discovery. Over the past few decades …

[PDF][PDF] Efficacy, non-target impacts, and other considerations of unregistered fipronil-laced baits being used in multiple invasive ant eradication programs

BD Hoffmann, M Pettit, J Antonio… - Management of …, 2023 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
We present three studies assessing the efficacy and non-target impacts of multiple
unregistered forms of hydrogel ant baits, as well as some co-use with the granular bait …

[PDF][PDF] Statistics reform: practitioner's perspective

HN Huang - ResearchGate Preprint, 2023 - researchgate.net
It is generally accepted that one of the main causes of the replication crisis in scientific
research is some of the most commonly used statistical methods, such as null hypothesis …

Confidence and Discoveries with E-values

V Vovk, R Wang - Statistical Science, 2023 - projecteuclid.org
We discuss systematically two versions of confidence regions: those based on p-values and
those based on e-values, a recent alternative to p-values. Both versions can be applied to …

Coherent tests for interval null hypotheses

S Hansen, K Rice - The American Statistician, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In a celebrated 1996 article, Schervish showed that, for testing interval null hypotheses, tests
typically viewed as optimal can be logically incoherent. Specifically, one may fail to reject a …