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Moving to a World Beyond “ p < 0.05”

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Wasserstein, Ronald L., Schirm, Allen L., Lazar, Nicole A.·2019·The American Statistician

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EDITORIAL: The editorial was written by the three editors acting as individuals and reflects their scientific views not an endorsed position of the American Statistical Association.Some of you expl...

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  • In hypothesis-testing studies using inferential statistics, investigators frequently confuse statistical significance and small p-values with biological or clinical importance.

    “In hypothesis-testing studies using inferential statistics, investigators frequently confuse statistical significance and small p-values with biological or clinical importance [149].”
  • The differences among the means in KWH and CTM per season according to ANOVA results had p < 0.05.

    “The differences among the means in KWH and CTM per season according to ANOVA results had p < 0.05, which means that there is high compatibility between the statistical model and the data [52].”

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Authors
Wasserstein, R. L., Schirm, A. L., & Lazar, N. A.
Affiliations
  • American Statistical Association, Alexandria
  • Mathematica Policy Research (US)
  • University of Georgia (US)
Venue
The American Statistician
Published
2019-03-20
Volume
73
Issue
sup1
Pages
1-19
ISSN
  • 0003-1305 (ISSN-L)
  • 1537-2731
OpenAlex
W2922853138
Cited by
2,976
References
5
Citations by year
2026: 323 · 2025: 331 · 2024: 353 · 2023: 325 · 2022: 446 · 2021: 457 · 2020: 494 · 2019: 241 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 2
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319.76
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • The American Statistician (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
  • Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistics Education and Methodologies
Keywords
p-values, statistical significance thresholds, statistical inference, research reporting practices

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