Note also the blog post by Daniel Lakens on the same topic here. Update March 23, 2022: a more concise / slightly modified version of these thoughts was published as a letter in TREE, co-authored together with Fred Barraquand. Background Criticism of p-values has been rampant in recent years, as were predictions of their imminent…
Although one would think that the basic concepts of statistics should be the same across all sciences, there is an amazing heterogeneity between fields in how statistics is taught and practiced. One example are the validity concepts (e.g. construct validity, internal validity, external validity) that are heavily taught in the social sciences and economics (see…
A comment by Deborah Mayo on a recent post by Andre Gelman started a heated and surprisingly subtle discussion on the correct (frequentist) definition of the p-value that currently continues on Larry Wasserman blog. Read for yourself – I for myself am still happy to write p(D>d|H0) ;).
theoretical ecology 