On Friday 28 Sep 2007 5:42 pm, Shyam Visweswaran wrote: > More than the studies being bogus, the > statistical machinery in common use is bedeviled > with problems. p-values are problematic; they > don't mean what you would like them to mean. > Significance testing is on shaky grounds. Why do > papers have a discussion section that discusses > the plausibilty of a p-value or a significance > test? After all if the test was doing its job, > the conclusion sould be a slam dunk with no need > to second guess it or bolster it.
Shyam could you post/link that very interesting paper you had put on jipmer.net about the guy who came up with this p value concept? shiv
