{"product_id":"the-war-on-statistical-significance-donald-b-macnaughton-9798682635283","title":"The War on Statistical Significance: The American Statistician vs. the New England Journal of Medicine","description":"From the preface\u003cp\u003eThe \"threshold \u003ci\u003ep-\u003c\/i\u003evalue\"-the arbiter of statistical significance-has been a widely used gateway to believability and acceptance for publication in scientific research since 1925. However, a growing number of statisticians and other researchers say we should \"move beyond\" these ideas, suggesting we should greatly reduce our emphasis on them in scientific research. These authors are waging a well-intentioned, polite, and vigorous intellectual war on the ideas of a threshold \u003ci\u003ep-\u003c\/i\u003evalue and statistical significance. This is a \"good\" war, because it forces important issues into the open, where they can be best understood and assessed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book grew from a sense that the threshold-\u003ci\u003ep-\u003c\/i\u003evalue gateway to publication of scientific research results is highly useful but is also widely misunderstood. The book presents, from first principles, a modern view of the role of the gateway, as used by some scientific journals. The ideas are explained in terms of the recent disagreement about them between the editorial in a Special Issue on Statistical Inference of the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Statistician\u003c\/i\u003e and a subsequent editorial in the \u003ci\u003eNew England Journal of Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ideas are developed with almost no reference to mathematics. (A computer can do all the standard math if the user properly understands the key ideas.) The explanations are reinforced with practical examples. The discussion shows how the concept of a threshold-\u003ci\u003ep-\u003c\/i\u003evalue gateway helps researchers and journal editors maximize the overall scientific, social, and commercial \u003ci\u003ebenefit\u003c\/i\u003e of scientific research. The gateway does this by optimally balancing the rates of costly \"false-positive\" and \"false-negative\" errors in a scientific journal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book also discusses the important related ideas of a relationship between variables, a scientific hypothesis test, and the \"replication crisis\" in some branches of scientific research.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe body of the book, which covers the key ideas, is roughly 30% of the text. The remainder consists of 23 appendices that expand the ideas in useful directions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe material is aimed at scientific researchers, journal editors, science teachers, and science students in the biological, social, and physical sciences. It will also be of interest to statisticians, data scientists, philosophers of science, and lay readers seeking an integrated modern view of the high-level operation of the study of relationships between variables in scientific research.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the author\u003cp\u003eDonald B. Macnaughton has been a statistical consultant for more than 40 years. He has managed the statistical aspects of research in the fields of experimental psychology, zoology, drug dependence, nursing, education, business, geography, physical education, and inmate rehabilitation, among others. His consulting work supports and informs his main interest, which is to read, understand, and write about the vital role of the field of statistics in scientific research.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Donald B. Macnaughton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798682635283\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/30\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.55d","brand":"Donald B. Macnaughton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47419718303999,"sku":"9798682635283","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_28c9c191-9301-4c3b-8577-2d9169c58dc6.jpg?v=1761513410","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-war-on-statistical-significance-donald-b-macnaughton-9798682635283","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}