G'day all, On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:55:38 +0100 (BST) (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 13-Jul-08 13:29:13, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: > > [...] > > A large P-value means nothing more than needing more data. No > > conclusion is possible. I would have thought that "we need more data" would qualify as a conclusion. :) > > Please read the classic paper Absence of Evidence is not Evidence > > for Absence. > > Is that ironic, Frank, or is there really a "classic paper" with > that title? If so, I'd be pleased to have a reference to it! Of course, I do not know for sure which paper Frank has in mind, but google and google schoar readily come up with papers/editorials that have a nearly identical title: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/311/7003/485 http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/328/7438/476 (see also http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=351831) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6829975 My money is on Frank having the first of these publications in mind. Cheers, Berwin =========================== Full address ============================= Berwin A Turlach Tel.: +65 6516 4416 (secr) Dept of Statistics and Applied Probability +65 6516 6650 (self) Faculty of Science FAX : +65 6872 3919 National University of Singapore 6 Science Drive 2, Blk S16, Level 7 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Singapore 117546 http://www.stat.nus.edu.sg/~statba ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
