Raymond Arritt wrote:
> More broadly, please see "The Insignificance of Significance Testing" by
> Neville Nicholls, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Vol.
> 82, No. 5, pp. 981–986 (2001).
>
> Public access to BAMS is free. Go to:
>
> http://ams.allenpress.com/amsonline/?request=get-toc&issn=1520-0477&volume=82&issue=5
>
> and scroll down (under "commentary and analysis").
>
This paper repeats much of the well-known (but frequently ignored)
problems with statistical hypothesis testing. It should be required
reading for all climate scientists.
However, it unfortunately drops a clanger of its own.
It recommends generating confidence intervals (rather than just a
p-value for the null hypothesis):
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