Many bankers hear the term “Statistical Significance” but don’t know what it means and how it is relevant to potential fair lending violations. Typically, when an examiner is evaluating if a bank is ...

It may be common knowledge that p < .05 indicates statistical significance. Psychology students (and others) are often taught that p < .05 means the probability (p) of rejecting the null hypothesis ...

To prevail in a toxic tort action, the plaintiff must show both general causation and specific causation. Under Federal Rule of Evidence 702, an expert can qualify if she has sufficient "knowledge, ...

Valen E. Johnson receives funding from the National Institutes of Health to perform biostatistical research on the selection of variables associated with cancer and cancer research. In their ...

The current way many researchers apply p-values to draw conclusions on statistical significance is incorrect and unhelpful, three scientists argue in a Nature commentary published yesterday (March 20) ...

This week, The American Statistician published a special issue, "Statistical Inference in the 21st Century: A World Beyond p < 0.05," which includes 43 new papers by leading statisticians. The ...