Science is more than applied statistics – can we be freed from p-value tyranny, please!
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How likely is it that a scientific finding – for example, that exercise has a positive effect on blood pressure – is actually…
How likely is it that a scientific finding – for example, that exercise has a positive effect on blood pressure – is actually…
Two years ago, a piece in The Conversation predicted that a new breed of science war, not between two cultures this time, but…
Science and medicine often deal with issues that are about finding "the needle in the haystack." We might get a better handle…
Andrea Saltelli, University of Bergen The April 22 March for Science, like the Women’s March before it, will confront United…
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The aim of science is to establish facts, as accurately as possible. It is therefore crucially important to determine whether…
Good science loses out when bad science gets the funding. Shutterstock/Looker Studio Spectacular failures to replicate key…
Spectacular failures to replicate key scientific findings have been documented of late, particularly in biology, psychology…
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Spectacular failures to replicate key scientific findings have been documented of late, particularly in biology, psychology and…
Spectacular failures to replicate key scientific findings have been documented of late, particularly in biology, psychology and…
Oncology trials fail far too frequently, and often for similar reasons. We have observed oncology studies fail frequently due…
Home Other Sciences Mathematics April 26, 2016 April 26, 2016 by Hilda Bastian, Plos Blogs The hunt for p-values less than 0.05…
Following one of the largest-scale scientific reproducibility investigations to date, a group of psychology researchers has…
When we talk about what new scientific research says, we want to say something understandable and digestible, especially when a…
A new study shows that the field suffers from a reproducibility problem, but the extent of the issue is still hard to nail down.
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Tree diagram to illustrate the false discovery rate in significance tests. This example considers 1000 tests in which the…
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