I contend that there is a better way to correct the misuse of tests for statistical significance than by dispensing with them altogether (see V. Amrhein et al. Nature 567, 305–307; 2019). The ...

Yesterday’s article by Geoff Cumming, based on a very recent Proceedings of the National Academy of Science paper, argued that “null hypothesis significance tests” (NHST) are flawed – and he is ...

Many biological, physical and social systems can be expressed as networks, with nodes representing individual entities within the network and edges representing pairwise relationships between nodes ...

The practice of null hypothesis testing has traditionally been used to interpret the results of studies in a wide variety of scientific fields. Briefly, significance testing involves the calculation ...

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What to do with significance testing, the bench scientist’s statistical workhorse? Short of tossing it out once and for all, there are proposals to toughen ...

*This post has been updated as of August 4, 2020. On May 20, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission formally adopted amendments to financial disclosure regulations regarding the acquisition and ...