Malcolm McCallum wrote: > I vaguely recall an exchange on here regarding the role of hypothesis = > testing and the statistical validity of this approach. Any citations or = > comments would be greatly apprecieated!
There's enough here to keep you going: <http://www.warnercnr.colostate.edu/~anderson/thompson1.html> This is probably one of the more important papers: it sparked off a big discussion amongst pshycologists: Cohen, J. 1994. The earth is round (p<.05). American Psychologist 49:997-1003. My only comment is to observe that nobody should be allowed to use a p-values unless they can demonstrate that they fully understand what it means. Bob -- Bob O'Hara Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics P.O. Box 68 (Gustaf Hllstrmin katu 2b) FIN-00014 University of Helsinki Finland Telephone: +358-9-191 51479 Mobile: +358 50 599 0540 Fax: +358-9-191 51400 WWW: http://www.RNI.Helsinki.FI/~boh/ Journal of Negative Results - EEB: http://www.jnr-eeb.org
