Statistical inference comprises the framework by which data are used to draw conclusions about underlying phenomena or populations. At its heart lies hypothesis testing, a procedure that evaluates ...

During his Ph.D. research, mathematician Tyron Lardy worked on a new approach to hypothesis testing. Instead of the traditional p-value, he uses so-called e-values. These turn out to be more ...

We take science seriously at The Conversation and we work hard at reporting it accurately. This series of five posts is adapted from an internal presentation on how to understand and edit science by ...

When researchers conduct many statistical tests simultaneously, the chance of obtaining false positives increases. Traditional methods for multiple comparisons, such ...