P-values: misunderstood and misused
P-values are widely used in both the social and natural sciences to quantify the statistical significance of observed results. The recent surge of big data research has made the p-value an even more popular tool to test the significance of a study. However, substantial literature has been produced c...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2016-03-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Physics |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphy.2016.00006/full |