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During his Ph.D. research, mathematician Tyron Lardy worked on a new approach to hypothesis testing. Instead of the traditional p-value, he uses so-called e-values. These turn out to be more ...

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For researchers there's a lot that turns on the p value, the number used to determine whether a result is statistically significant. The current consensus is that if p is less than .05, a study has ...

Neuroscientists would need to know and publish whether a manipulation does not have an effect as much as whether it does. One may use drugs to block a candidate pathway. If the drug has an effect, ...

The majority of epidemiological studies are exercises in measurement; i.e., we try to estimate as accurately as we can some potential (possibly causal) association between an exposure and an outcome.

In the realm of technical product development, hypothesis testing acts as a bridge between design, data and decision-making. It enables teams to move beyond assumptions and validate their ideas ...