The cult of statistical significance

By Deirdre N. McCloskey, Stephen Thomas Ziliak

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

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