West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)

Comments, observations and thoughts from two bloggers on applied statistics, higher education and epidemiology. Joseph is an associate professor. Mark is a professional statistician and former math teacher.

Showing posts with label p-value. Show all posts

Showing posts with label p-value. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

How about an alternative to p-value?

Or, more accurately, a complement. I think we can all agree that the quality of a study cannot be described by a scalar. Given that, is it p...

The ongoing tyranny of statistical significance testing in biomedical research

This is the title of an article that appears in the Europen Journal of Epidemiology. I think that it is a good contribution to the recent ...

Monday, March 22, 2010

The curse of large numbers and the real problem with p-values

(Some final thoughts on statistical significance) The real problem with p-values isn't just that people want it to do something that it ...

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Some more thoughts on p-value

One of the advantages of being a corporate statistician was that generally you not only ran the test; you also explained the statistics. I c...

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