Central to the theme of hypothesis testing is the P-value, which is often misunderstood or misinterpreted. While it is often stated as the probability of the data having arisen by chance, the P-value ...
The books Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics (Wheeler, 1976) and Damned Lies and Statistics (Best, 2001) have raised questions about whether statistics can be trusted. A number of educated people today, ...