dennis roberts wrote: > could someone give an example or two ... of how p values have really > advanced our knowledge and understanding of some particular phenomenon?
Pick up any issue of JAMA or NEJM. I admit I use P values. They *help* me separate the wheat from the chaff. Are you saying you don't use them? (The question is earnest, not rhetorical.) . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
