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 ...

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Michael Lew has received funding from the NHMRC. Yesterday’s article by Geoff Cumming, based on a very recent Proceedings of the National Academy of Science paper, argued that “null hypothesis ...

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It is of fundamental interest in statistics to test the significance of a set of covariates. For example, in genomewide association studies, a joint null hypothesis of no genetic effect is tested for ...