Science is all about interrogating and disproving theories. Scientists in most quantitative fields will conduct p value testing as a method of statistical investigation. A low p value is an indicator ...

Imagine, if you dare, a world without P values. Perhaps you’re already among the lucky participants in the human race who don’t know what a P value is. Trust me, you don’t want to. P stands for ...

Michael Lew has received funding from the NHMRC. Yesterday’s article by Geoff Cumming, based on a very recent Proceedings of the National Academy of Science paper, argued that “null hypothesis ...

It is of fundamental interest in statistics to test the significance of a set of covariates. For example, in genomewide association studies, a joint null hypothesis of no genetic effect is tested for ...

Hypothesis testing is a formal procedure for investigating our ideas about the world using statistics. It is most often used by researchers to test predictions, called hypotheses. The first step in ...