The meaning of significance in data testing

2015/08/27 by J Perezgonzalez · 1 voice
Decision Sciences · Psychology · #Educational and Psychological Assessments #Psychometric Methodologies and Testing

paper · pdf · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01293

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Abstract

OPINION article Front. Psychol., 27 August 2015Sec. Educational Psychology Volume 6 - 2015 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01293

Citations

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Discussions

• #statstab #289 The meaning of significance in data testing Thoughts: Fisherian significance testing =/= Neyman-Pearson statistical hypothesis testing. Many debates on p-values and frequentist stats a [bsky, 7 points, 1 comments]

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