The failure of null hypothesis significance testing when studying incremental changes, and what to do about it
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 2017-12-26
Summary:
A few months ago I wrote a post, “Cage match: Null-hypothesis-significance-testing meets incrementalism. Nobody comes out alive.” I soon after turned it into an article with the title given above and the following abstract: A standard mode of inference in social and behavioral science is to establish stylized facts using statistical significance in quantitative studies. […]
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