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Abstract A controversy concerning the usefulness of "null" hypothesis tests in scientific inference has continued in articles within psychology since 1960 and has recently come to a head, with serious proposals offered for a test ban or something close to it. This article sketches some of the views of statistical theory and practice among different groups of psychologists, reviews a recent book offering multiple perspectives on null hypothesis tests, and argues that the debate within psychology is a symptom of serious incompleteness in the foundations of statistics.
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- 94
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- 448
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- 1372-1381
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David H. Krantz
(1999).
The Null Hypothesis Testing Controversy in Psychology.
Journal of the American Statistical Association
, 94
(448)
, 1372-1381.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.1999.10473888
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- 10.1080/01621459.1999.10473888