The ASA’s Statement on p-Values: Context, Process and Purpose
Ronald L. Wasserstein & Nicole A. Lazar
To cite this article: Ronald L. Wasserstein & Nicole A. Lazar (2016) The ASA’s Statement on p-Values: Context, Process, and Purpose, The American Statistician, 70:2, 129-133, DOI:10.1080/00031305.2016.1154108
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2016.1154108
View supplementary material Accepted author version posted online: 07 Mar 2016.Published online: 09 Jun 2016.
THE AMERICAN STATISTICIAN
EDITORIAL
The ASA’s Statement on p-Values: Context, Process, and Purpose
In February 2014, George Cobb, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
and Statistics at Mount Holyoke College, posed these
questions to an ASA discussion forum:
Q: Why do so many colleges and grad schools teach p = 0.05?
A: Because that’s still what the scientific community and journal
editors use.
Q: Why do so many people still use p = 0.05?
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