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The False Positive Risk: A Proposal Concerning What to Do About p-Values
2019
American Statistician
It is widely acknowledged that the biomedical literature suffer from a surfeit of false positive results. Part of the reason for this is the persistence of the myth that observation of a p value less than 0.05 is sufficient justification to claim that you've made a discovery. It is hopeless to expect users to change their reliance on p values unless they are offered an alternative way of judging the reliability of their conclusions. If the alternative method is to have a chance of being adopted
doi:10.1080/00031305.2018.1529622
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