To p, or not to p? : quantifying inferential decision errors to assess whether significance truly is significant
Empirical testing is centred on p-values. These summary statistics are used to assess the plausibility of a null hypothesis, and therein lies a flaw in their interpretation. Central to this research is accounting for the behaviour of p-values, through density functions, under the alternative hypothe...
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London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London)
2009
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.543108 |