Ninety years ago, Ronald Fisher changed science forever. With his book, Statistical Methods for Researchers, the eminent English statistician popularized P values for measuring statistical ...

Science is all about interrogating and disproving theories. Scientists in most quantitative fields will conduct p value testing as a method of statistical investigation. A low p value is an indicator ...

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Geoff Cumming has received funding from the Australian Research Council. For researchers there’s a lot that turns on the p value, the number used to determine whether a result is statistically ...

Imagine, if you dare, a world without P values. Perhaps you’re already among the lucky participants in the human race who don’t know what a P value is. Trust me, you don’t want to. P stands for ...