Worry about correctness and repeatability, not p-values

Win-Vector Blog 2013-04-05

Summary:

In data science work you often run into cryptic sentences like the following: Age adjusted death rates per 10,000 person years across incremental thirds of muscular strength were 38.9, 25.9, and 26.6 for all causes; 12.1, 7.6, and 6.6 for cardiovascular disease; and 6.1, 4.9, and 4.2 for cancer (all P < 0.01 for linear [...]

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Authors:

John Mount

Date tagged:

04/05/2013, 22:38

Date published:

04/05/2013, 19:58