On the use and misuse of p-values

On the use and misuse of p-values

Statistics and Genomics Seminar
Feb 25, 2016, 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM | 1011 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Ilana Belitskaya-Levy, VA Palo Alto Health System
This talk consists of two parts. In the first part of the talk, we examine and quantify p-value uncertainty and replication power and show that over-interpretation of significant p-values is an important factor contributing to the unexpectedly high incidence of non-replication in research. In the second part of the talk, we discuss why p-values are just “the tip of the iceberg” when it comes to...