Towards replicability with confidence intervals for the exceedance probability

DOI10.48550/ARXIV.1803.03356arXiv1803.03356MaRDI QIDQ143708

Publication date: 9 March 2018

Abstract: Several scientific fields including psychology are undergoing a replication crisis. There are many reasons for this problem, one of which is a misuse of p-values. There are several alternatives to p-values, and in this paper we describe a complement that is geared towards replication. In particular, we focus on confidence intervals for the probability that a parameter estimate will exceed a specified value in an exact replication study. These intervals convey uncertainty in a way that p-values and standard confidence intervals do not, and can help researchers to draw sounder scientific conclusions. After briefly reviewing background on p-values and a few alternatives, we describe our approach and provide examples with simulated and real data. For linear models, we also describe how confidence intervals for the exceedance probability are related to p-values and confidence intervals for parameters.