Metadata
- Author: Ronald L
- Full Title:: The ASA Statement on P-Values: Context, Process, and Purpose
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://readwise.io/reader/document_raw_content/152587490
- Finished date:: 2024-03-16
Highlights
While the p-value can be a useful statistical measure, it is commonly misused and misinterpreted. This has led to some scientific journals discouraging the use ofp-values, and some scientists and statisticians recommending their abandonment, with some arguments essentially unchanged since p-values were first introduced. (View Highlight)
New highlights added 2024-03-19
Researchers often wish to turn a p-value into a statement aboutthe truthofanull hypothesis,orabout the probability that random chance produced the observed data. The p-value is neither. It is a statement about data in relation to a specified hypothetical explanation, and is not a statement about the explanation itself (View Highlight)
A p-value provides one approach to summarizing the incompatibility between a particular set of data and a proposed model for the data (View Highlight)