The cult of statistical significance

By Deirdre N. McCloskey, Stephen Thomas Ziliak

Subjects: Economics, statistical methods, Statistical hypothesis testing, Statistical methods, Social aspects of Statistical hypothesis testing, Statistical tests, Social aspects of Statistics, 70.03 methods, techniques and organization of social science research, Scientific policy, Social aspects, Economics, Non-parametric statistics, Statistical reliability, Statistics

Description: Another report from the struggle to dethrone Fisherite statistical-significance tests as a measure of the quality and importance of experimental results.