Frank E Harrell Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 08:07:37PM CEST]: > (Ted Harding) 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. Please read the classic paper Absence of >>> Evidence is not Evidence for Absence. >> [...] > > It's real. Full text is available to all: > http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/311/7003/485
The quotation is attributed to the late Carl Sagan who seemed to have used it as a strawman argument , see http://oyhus.no/AbsenceOfEvidence.html. -- Johannes Hüsing There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] from such a trifling investment of fact. http://derwisch.wikidot.com (Mark Twain, "Life on the Mississippi") ______________________________________________ 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.
