Science is all about interrogating and disproving theories. Scientists in most quantitative fields will conduct p value testing as a method of statistical investigation. A low p value is an indicator ...

In the middle of the 20 th century, the field of psychology had a problem. In the wake of the Manhattan Project and in the early days of the space race, the so-called “hard sciences” were producing ...

Michael Lew has received funding from the NHMRC. Yesterday’s article by Geoff Cumming, based on a very recent Proceedings of the National Academy of Science paper, argued that “null hypothesis ...

We take science seriously at The Conversation and we work hard at reporting it accurately. This series of five posts is adapted from an internal presentation on how to understand and edit science by ...

Imagine, if you dare, a world without P values. Perhaps you’re already among the lucky participants in the human race who don’t know what a P value is. Trust me, you don’t want to. P stands for ...

Suggested Citation: "Appendix D: Using Bayes Analysis for Hypothesis Testing." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. Reproducibility and ...