Connecting simple and precise P‐values to complex and ambiguous realities (includes rejoinder to comments on “Divergence vs. decision P‐values”)

DOI10.1111/sjos.12645arXiv2304.01392OpenAlexW4362583837MaRDI QIDQ6073429

Sander Greenland

Publication date: 11 October 2023

Published in: Scandinavian Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01392

zbMATH Keywords

decision theoryhypothesis testingmodel checkingstatistical geometrydivergence measuresstatistical informationsignificance testfalsificationism\(P\)-value\(S\)-valuessurprisals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistics (62-XX)

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