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The Center for Biomedical Research Transparency, the American Heart Association (AHA) and Wolters Kluwer join forces to launch a new Null Hypothesis collection for the AHA’s scientific journals ...
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Researchers from Northwestern University, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Colorado published a new Journal of Marketing study that proposes abandoning null hypothesis significance ...
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 ...
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Consumers of research should not be satisfied with statements that “X is effective”, or “Y has an effect”. Gwenae l Piaser Empirical science needs data. But all data are subject to random variation, ...