In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jerry Dallal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Herman Rubin wrote and I marked up:
>> There is no way to use the present p-value by itself correctly
>> with additional data.
>I think the "with" is a typographical error and that "without" was
>intended. I comment only because I like it and plan to use a
>modified version of it as "the law". Something along the line of
>There is *no way* to use a P value by itself correctly. It must be
>accompanied by additional data.
>I already say this but not as suscinctly.
There are two ways of reading my statement. By itself,
your interpretation is quite correct. But my intention
was to consider what happens if additional experiments
are available, in which case I do not know a reasonable
way to use the p value with that further information as
a summary of the data yielding the p value.
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are those of the Statistics Department or of Purdue University.
Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
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