The books Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics (Wheeler, 1976) and Damned Lies and Statistics (Best, 2001) have raised questions about whether statistics can be trusted. A number of educated people today, ...

The use of statistical significance and 𝑝-values has become a matter of substantial controversy in various fields using statistical methods. This has gone as far as some journals banning the use of ...

The essence of many statistical problems, including most standard techniques, is to test whether or not the unknown parameters of an appropriate statistical model satisfy certain restrictions; and the ...

Stephen Ziliak of Roosevelt University and Deirdre McCloskey of University of Illinois at Chicago have done the world of academic research the greatest, but least welcome, of favors. In their book, ...

McShane, Blakeley B.; Bradlow, Eric T.; Lynch Jr., John G.; Meyer, Robert J. "Statistical Significance" and Statistical Reporting: Moving Beyond Binary. Journal of ...

My print column this week examines the concept of statistical significance -- a concept that the Supreme Court recently weighed in on, but that remains elusive even to some scientists who use it to ...

A recent study that questioned the healthfulness of eggs raised a perpetual question: Why do studies, as has been the case with health research involving eggs, so often flip-flop from one answer to ...