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Significance, truth and proof of p values: reminders about common misconceptions regarding null hypothesis significance testing
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The p-value does not give any indication of the effect size.
“and the p-value does not give any indication of the effect size.”
From Misconceptions of the p-value among Chilean and Italian Academic Psychologists (2016) · cites this paper as Verdam et al. (2014)
The p-value does not indicate replicability of results.
“Furthermore, the p-value does not indicate replicability of results.”
From Misconceptions of the p-value among Chilean and Italian Academic Psychologists (2016) · cites this paper as Verdam et al. (2014)
Rejecting the null hypothesis does not prove that the alternative hypothesis is true.
“rejecting the null hypothesis does not prove that the alternative hypothesis is true”
From Misconceptions of the p-value among Chilean and Italian Academic Psychologists (2016) · cites this paper as Verdam et al. (2014)
The p-value is not the probability of the null hypothesis.
“In summary, as Verdam et al. (2014) point out, the p-value is not the probability of the null hypothesis”
From Misconceptions of the p-value among Chilean and Italian Academic Psychologists (2016) · cites this paper as Verdam et al. (2014)
Not rejecting the null hypothesis does not prove that the alternative hypothesis is false.
“not rejecting the null hypothesis does not prove that the alternative hypothesis is false”
From Misconceptions of the p-value among Chilean and Italian Academic Psychologists (2016) · cites this paper as Verdam et al. (2014)
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Metadata
- Authors
- Verdam, M. G. E., Oort, F. J., & Sprangers, M. A. G.
- Affiliations
- University of Amsterdam (NL)
- Amsterdam UMC Location University of Amsterdam (NL)
- Corresponding author
- Verdam, Mathilde G. E.
- Venue
- Quality of Life Research
- Published
- 2013-05-23
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 5-7
- ISSN
- 0962-9343 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-2649
- OpenAlex
- W2062192064
- Cited by
- 18
- References
- 13
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 1.47
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- handle.uba.uva.nl
- Licence
- other-oa
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- Locations
- Quality of Life Research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
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- Pure Amsterdam UMC (submittedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods in Epidemiology
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistics Education and Methodologies
- Keywords
- p-values, null hypothesis significance testing, statistical significance, effect size, statistical inference, statistical interpretation
- MeSH terms
- Data Interpretation, Statistical, Decision Making, Health Status, Humans, Probability, Psychology, Experimental, Quality of Life, Research Design, Reproducibility of Results, Models, Statistical
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