Research and statistical analysis help us understand how the world works, how effective medications and treatments are, what influences our health, the best approach for business practices, and much ...

If the P value is less than 5%, reject the null hypothesis; if the P value is .05 or more, don't reject the null hypothesis. Statistics textbooks -- and statisticians for that matter -- focus almost ...

Every medical researcher dreams of doing studies or conducting clinical trials that generate results so compelling they change how diseases are treated or health policy is written. In reality, we are ...

Hypothesis testing is a formal procedure for investigating our ideas about the world using statistics. It is most often used by researchers to test predictions, called hypotheses. The first step in ...

In applied research, an effect size is specified in advance and defines a threshold for decision-making. Power analyses of a specific desired effect size may then be carried out before an experiment ...

I've recently begun to publish small excerpts and arguments from my forthcoming work, The Myth of Sex Addiction. As I've done so, I've heard from sex addiction proponents who argue that I must accept ...