2019/04/13 by Victor Coscrato, Luís Gustavo Esteves, Coscrato, Victor +5
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Computer Science · Decision Sciences · #62F03 #Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies #Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Meta-analysis and systematic reviews #Methodology (stat.ME)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1904.06605
openalex publication_date 2019/04/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Although hypothesis tests play a prominent role in Science, their interpretation can be challenging. Three issues are (i) the difficulty in making an assertive decision based on the output of an hypothesis test, (ii) the logical contradictions that occur in multiple hypothesis testing, and (iii) the possible lack of practical importance when rejecting a precise hypothesis. These issues can be addressed through the use of agnostic tests and pragmatic hypotheses.