Title: The cult of statistical significance
First published: 2008
Description: Another report from the struggle to dethrone Fisherite statistical-significance tests as a measure of the quality and importance of experimental results.
Subjects: Statistical methods, Statistical hypothesis testing, Social aspects, Economics, Social aspects of Statistics, Statistics, Social aspects of Statistical hypothesis testing, Non-parametric statistics, 70.03 methods, techniques and organization of social science research, Statistical reliability, Scientific policy, Statistical tests, Economics, statistical methods
People: W. Edwards Deming, Ronald A. Fisher, William S. Gosset, William Kruskal, Jerzy Neyman, Egon S. Pearson, Karl Pearson
Time periods: the 20th century
LC classification: HB137 .Z55 2008