Dance p 3 Mar09

Name: Dance p 3 Mar09
Description: Geoff Cumming uses a simulation to show how wildly the p value varies from one replication to the next because of sampling variability. He argues for estimation and confidence intervals over null hypothesis significance testing.

Geoff Cumming

Geoff Cumming uses a simulation to show how wildly the p value varies from one replication to the next because of sampling variability. He argues for estimation and confidence intervals over null hypothesis significance testing.

Recommended as a vivid visual demonstration of how unreliable p-values are.

3 Hacker News mentions · 2011–2015

Topics

Data science & statistics
Scientific method & science communication

Watch on YouTube

Explore more videos