Moving Towards the Post p < 0.05 Era via the Analysis of Credibility

Abstract

It is now widely accepted that the techniques of null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) are routinely misused and misinterpreted by researchers seeking insight from data. There is, however, no consensus on acceptable alternatives, leaving researchers with little choice but to continue using NHST, regardless of its failings. I examine the potential for the Analysis of Credibility (AnCred) to resolve this impasse. Using real-life examples, I assess the ability of AnCred to provide researchers with a simple but robust framework for assessing study findings that goes beyond the standard dichotomy of statistical significance/nonsignificance. By extracting more insight from standard summary statistics while offering more protection against inferential fallacies, AnCred may encourage researchers to move toward the post p < 0.05 era.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2018.1543136
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Additional Information: © 2019 The Author. Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
Uncontrolled Keywords: Analysis of credibility,Bayesian inference,Null hypothesis Significance testing,p-Values,Statistics and Probability,Mathematics(all),Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
Publication ISSN: 1537-2731
Last Modified: 25 Mar 2024 08:31
Date Deposited: 08 Apr 2019 10:30
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2019-03-29
Published Online Date: 2019-03-20
Accepted Date: 2018-10-01
Authors: Matthews, Robert A.J.

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