Detailed guides to painful problems, treatments & more

Moving to a World Beyond “p < 0.05”

PainSci » bibliography » Wasserstein et al 2019
updated
Tags: stats, bad science, scientific medicine

Two articles on PainSci cite Wasserstein 2019: 1. Complete Guide to Plantar Fasciitis2. Statistical Significance Abuse

original abstract Abstracts here may not perfectly match originals, for a variety of technical and practical reasons. Some abstacts are truncated for my purposes here, if they are particularly long-winded and unhelpful. I occasionally add clarifying notes. And I make some minor corrections.

Some of you exploring this special issue of The American Statistician might be wondering if it’s a scolding from pedantic statisticians lecturing you about what not to do with p-values, without offering any real ideas of what to do about the very hard problem of separating signal from noise in data and making decisions under uncertainty. Fear not. In this issue, thanks to 43 innovative and thought-provoking papers from forward-looking statisticians, help is on the way.

This page is part of the PainScience BIBLIOGRAPHY, which contains plain language summaries of thousands of scientific papers & others sources. It’s like a highly specialized blog. A few highlights: