Your editorial “The FDA Returns to Its Bad Habits” (Feb. 21) explains, “Reata’s p-value was 0.014, which means there was a 1.4% chance that its positive result was a fluke.” A related, true statement ...

How many statisticians does it take to ensure at least a 50 percent chance of a disagreement about p-values? According to a tongue-in-cheek assessment by statistician George Cobb of Mount Holyoke ...

The 'Statement on Statistical Significance and P-Values' includes six principles underlying the proper use and interpretation of the p-value and is intended to improve the conduct and interpretation ...

A review of p-values in the biomedical literature from 1990 to 2015 shows that these widely misunderstood statistics are being used increasingly, instead of better metrics of effect size or ...

In science, the success of an experiment is often determined by a measure called “statistical significance.” A result is considered to be “significant” if the difference observed in the experiment ...