What to do with significance testing, the bench scientist’s statistical workhorse? Short of tossing it out once and for all, there are proposals to toughen conventional practice. These proposals seek ...

Statistical significance is a critical concept in data analysis and research. In essence, it’s a measure that allows researchers to assess whether the results of an experiment or study are due to ...

The majority of empirical articles that we publish use null-hypothesis significance testing. In most cases, researchers rely on P values to establish the scientific or practical significance of their ...

The researcher would have no incentive and no reason to nudge the study towards significance or away from it. The numerically equal (but with different signs) values in the example show a great ...