Abstract
As I started to write this review, I happened to read a book review by Hannah Fry in the September 9, 2019 issue of The New Yorker of David Spiegelhalter’s new book, The Art of Statistics. Among other things, Spiegelhalter highlights the pitfalls in the standard practice of using Fisher’s p-test to reject a hypothesis that a result has occurred by chance. The conventional threshold for this “statistical significance” is p < 0.05. This means that in 20 samples, or trials of an experiment, one ...
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