Goodbye P value—is it time to let go of one of science's most fundamental measures?
Tuesday, March 10, 2015 - 08:00
in Mathematics & Economics
How should scientists interpret their data? Emerging from their labs after days, weeks, months, even years spent measuring and recording, how do researchers draw conclusions about the results of their experiments? Statistical methods are widely used but our recent research in Nature Methods reveals that one of the classic science statistics, the P value, may not be as reliable as we like to think.