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The notion that small, well planned clinical trials may not be worth undertaking is shown to arise from an overemphasis on just one way of interpreting P-values. Alternative forms of P and other interpretations are put forward. Attention is drawn to some aspects of the theory of hypothesis testing which seem less well known than they should be.
G. A. Barnard (Fri,) studied this question.