A World Beyond p < 0.05

The American Statistical Association has just published a special supplementary issue of The American Statistician, titled Statistical Inference in the 21st. Century: A World Beyond p < 0.05.

This entire issue is open-access. In addition to an excellent editorial, Moving to a World Beyond "p < 0.05" (by Ronald Wasserstein, Allen Schirm, and Nicole Lazar) it comprises 43 articles with such titles as:

• The p-Value Requires Context, Not a Threshold (by Rebecca Betensky)
• The False Positive Risk: A Proposal Concerning What to do About p-Values (by David Colquhoun)
• What Have we (Not) Learnt From Millions of Scientific Papers With P Values? (by John Ioannidis)
• Three Recommendations for Improving the Use of p-Values (by Daniel Benjamin and James Berger)

I'm sure that you get the idea of what this supplementary issue is largely about.

But look back at its title - Statistical Inference in the 21st. Century: A World Beyond p < 0.05. It's not simply full of criticisms. There's a heap of excellent, positive, and constructive material in there.

Highly recommended reading!

© 2019, David E. Giles