Timeline for "Liberal" p-values?
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| Aug 8, 2018 at 14:56 | comment | added | Aksakal | How about neurotic for a method that keeps producing high p-values | |
| Aug 8, 2018 at 14:48 | answer | added | DavidR | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 8, 2018 at 12:53 | comment | added | Sextus Empiricus | The term p-value is already doing enough damage when such concepts as 'conservative p-values' are around. P-values are used much too 'liberal' leading to all kinds of practices, conclusions and decisions which they should not. The p-value is a rule-of-thumb-measure of distance. When we wish to challenge a hypothesis then it is good to be 'conservative' (it makes us look further and better). I do not see the use of 'liberal' (too low) estimates of p-values unless we actually (a priori) believe it is good to reject the hypothesis and aim for power (which you dont necessarily get with liberal). | |
| Aug 6, 2018 at 21:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackStats/status/1026574098628075521 | ||
| Aug 6, 2018 at 18:33 | comment | added | Acccumulation | The cumulative probability of getting a p-value of p0 is, by definition, p0 (for the continuous case). Every method has the same chance of producing high p-values as every other method. | |
| Aug 6, 2018 at 15:44 | comment | added | Glen_b | A method can be conservative without routinely producing high p-values. If the null is never true and you never take small samples the p-values may routinely be low but the method may still be conservative. Its opposite is sometimes called 'anticonservative' | |
| Aug 6, 2018 at 15:07 | history | edited | Harvey Motulsky | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Put "liberal"in quotes to make it clear the question is about that word
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| Aug 6, 2018 at 13:32 | vote | accept | JonJup | ||
| Aug 6, 2018 at 13:29 | history | edited | Ferdi |
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| Aug 6, 2018 at 13:20 | answer | added | Ferdi | timeline score: 9 | |
| Aug 6, 2018 at 13:09 | history | edited | Ferdi |
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| Aug 6, 2018 at 12:51 | comment | added | whuber♦ | Definitely not, if only because the term is so vague as to be meaningless. (I wouldn't use "conservative," either, without first explaining what I meant.) | |
| Aug 6, 2018 at 12:48 | history | asked | JonJup | CC BY-SA 4.0 |