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p-values
Statistician’s View: A Follow-Up to Gang Xie’s Practicing Statistician’s Plea
Jonathan Shuster offers a commendation and response to Professor Gang Xie for his editorial, “A Practicing Statistician’s Plea.”
ASA President’s Task Force Statement on Statistical Significance and Replicability
The value of hypothesis testing, and the frequent misinterpretation of p-values as a cornerstone of statistical methodology, continues to be debated. In 2019, the president of the American Statistical Association, Karen Kafadar, convened a task force to consider the use of statistical methods in scientific studies, specifically hypothesis tests and p-values, and their connection to replicability.