Christian Hennig

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Professor Christian Hennig
Department of Statistical Sciences “Paolo Fortunati”
University of Bologna

[An earlier post by C. Hennig on this topic:  Jan 9, 2022: The ASA controversy on P-values as an illustration of the difficulty of statistics]

Statistical tests in five random research papers of 2024, and related thoughts on the “don’t say significant” initiative

This text follows an invitation to write on “abandon statistical significance 5 years on”, so I decided to do a tiny bit of empirical research. I had a look at five new papers listed on May 17 on the “Research Articles” site of Scientific Reports. I chose the most recent five papers when I looked without being selective. As I “sampled” papers for a general impression, I don’t want this to be a criticism of particular papers or authors, however in the interest of transparency, the doi addresses of the papers are: Continue reading →