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March 20, 2019The American Statistician260 citationsOpen Access

Three Recommendations for Improving the Use of p -Values

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DBDaniel J. BenjaminJBJames O. Berger

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Researchers commonly use p-values to answer the question: How strongly does the evidence favor the alternative hypothesis relative to the null hypothesis? p-Values themselves do not directly answer this question and are often misinterpreted in ways that lead to overstating the evidence against the null hypothesis. Even in the “post p

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synapsesocial.com/papers/69d68605bcbb69330b88b577https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2018.1543135
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