P-value (Probability Value): The p-value is a statistical measure used in research to help decide whether the results of a study are likely due to chance. More specifically, it represents the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. A blue-ribbon committee of the American Statistical Association spent a year arguing ...

How many statisticians does it take to ensure at least a 50 percent chance of a disagreement about p-values? According to a tongue-in-cheek assessment by statistician George Cobb of Mount Holyoke ...

Ninety years ago, Ronald Fisher changed science forever. With his book, Statistical Methods for Researchers, the eminent English statistician popularized P values for measuring statistical ...

How many ostensibly "positive" studies are wrong? In this deep-dive analysis, MedPage Today clinical reviewer F. Perry Wilson, MD, explains that the number may be much higher than you think. Some ...

Last week a team of 72 scientists released the preprint of an article attempting to address one aspect of the reproducibility crisis, the crisis of conscience in which scientists are increasingly ...