Wasserstein et al. (2019)

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Professor Yudi Pawitan
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

[An earlier guest post on this topic by Y. Pawitan is Jan 10, 2022: Yudi Pawitan: Behavioral aspects in the statistical significance war-game]

Behavioral aspects in the statistical significance war-game

I remember with fondness the good old days when the only ‘statistical war’-game was fought between the Bayesian and the frequentist. It was simpler and the participants were for the most part collegial. Moreover, there was a feeling that it was a philosophical debate. Even though the Bayesian-frequentist war is not fully settled, we can see areas of consensus, for example in objective Bayesianism or in conditional inference. However, on the P-value and statistical significance front, the war looks less simple since it is about statistical praxis; it is no longer Bayesian vs frequentist, with no consensus in sight and with wide implications affecting the day-to-day use of statistics. Continue reading →