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Re:Scientists rise up against statistical significance by rwj on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @05:38PM (#19447221)
Part of the problem is that p-values are not the best indicator in all applications. One question in my work is whether a process change affects the yield. A confidence interval of (-1%,+1%) is much different than (-20%,+20%), even though they would look the same if I was just interested in the p-value. We might also accept changes with a (-1%,+10%) confidence interval. We can't 'prove' that yields would increase, but there is significantly more upside than downside.

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