Statistical methods helping and hindering environmental science and management |
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| Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Graham?B?McBrideEmail author |
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| Institution: | (1) TAMU Department of Educational Psychology, Texas A&M University and Baylor College of Medicine, College Station, Texas, 77843-4225 |
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| Abstract: | Environmental scientists face the reality that many of their journals’ editors and referees routinely insist that results be accompanied by statements of statistical significance, obtained from two-sided tests of point-null hypotheses. Many in these three groups of people appear only vaguely a ware of the arbitrarinessoften invoked by this procedure and of the information sterility in a single p-value. The interpretation to be made of the failure of a test to attain such significance is not clear. For such reasons, some colleagues (and senior statisticans) have called current usage of the procedures into serious question. Some reasons for this dislocation and some of the more dramatic consequences for environmental science and management are presented. Interval and Bayesian approaches can offer remedies. |
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