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### question about p values and significance comparison [duplicate]

I am under the impression that you have to set your alpha value before the experiment, and once the experiment is done, your p value, based on the alpha value, is either significant or not. It's ...
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### Is the “hybrid” between Fisher and Neyman-Pearson approaches to statistical testing really an “incoherent mishmash”?

There exists a certain school of thought according to which the most widespread approach to statistical testing is a "hybrid" between two approaches: that of Fisher and that of Neyman-Pearson; these ...
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### Interpretation of p-value in hypothesis testing

I recently came across the paper "The Insignificance of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing", Jeff Gill (1999). The author raised a few common misconceptions regarding hypothesis testing and p-values,...
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### Why are lower p-values not more evidence against the null? Arguments from Johansson 2011

Johansson (2011) in "Hail the impossible: p-values, evidence, and likelihood" (here is also link to the journal) states that lower $p$-values are often considered as stronger evidence against the null....
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### Is the exact value of a 'p-value' meaningless?

I had a discussion with a statistician back in 2009 where he stated that the exact value of a p-value is irrelevant: the only thing that is important is whether it is significant or not. I.e. one ...
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### Are smaller p-values more convincing?

I've been reading up on $p$-values, type 1 error rates, significance levels, power calculations, effect sizes and the Fisher vs Neyman-Pearson debate. This has left me feeling a bit overwhelmed. I ...
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### Using p-value to compute the probability of hypothesis being true; what else is needed?

Question: One common misunderstanding of p-values is that they represent the probability of the null hypothesis being true. I know that's not correct and I know that p-values only represent the ...
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### Is it wrong to refer to results as being “highly significant”?

Why do statisticians discourage us from referring to results as "highly significant" when the $p$-value is well below the conventional $\alpha$-level of $0.05$? Is it really wrong to trust a result ...
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### Q-Q plot interpretation

Consider the following code and output: ...
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### Interpreting p-values in Fisher vs Neyman-Pearson frameworks

I am a little confused about what p-values mean under Fisher's signficance testing & Neyman-Pearson's hypothesis testing. Fisher uses p-values as a continuous measure of evidence against a null ...
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### What is the meaning of a large p-value?

I understand that the $p$-value is the conditional probability of observing the test statistic or something more extreme given that the null hypothesis is true. I have read the great explanation by @...
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### What really happens when we transform the data using $f(x) = \sin(\sqrt{x})$?

I need to perform a two-way ANOVA on my data ($Y$: sleeping hours). My data is quite normal $p$-value = $0.07$ with Shapiro-Wilk test but when I run the normality test for my residual, $p$-value is ...
I am wary of stepping into the civil war between Fisher vs Neyman-Pearson interpretations of $p$-value (which has been well elucidated here and here), but I've been pondering a question that I keep ...