Bad statistical practice in pharmacology (and other basic biomedical disciplines): You probably don't know P

British Journal of Pharmacology

Volumn 166, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1559-1567

  Lew, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

hypothesis tests; P values; scientific inference; significance tests; statistical education; statistical reform; type I errors

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY; DATA ANALYSIS; FISHER EXACT TEST; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEYMAN PEARSON HYPOTHESIS TEST; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; PHARMACOLOGY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84862739481     PISSN: 00071188     EISSN: 14765381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.2012.01931.x     Document Type: Review

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