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 ...

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 ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/2335854 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/2335854 Copy URL Repeated significance testing can be used as a multistage testing procedure which ...

Post-hoc testing is carried out after a statistical analysis where you have performed multiple significance tests, ‘post-hoc’ coming from the Latin “after this ...

The journal Basic and Applied Social Psychology recently banned the use of p-values and other statistical methods to quantify uncertainty from significance in research results Psychology researchers ...

These considerations, informal as they are, make we wonder whether tightening the noose on significance testing is a productive idea. The value analysis I have attempted here is only illustrative.