[R] OT Really: Odds Are, It's Wrong...

[Johannes Hüsing]

Dieter Menne schrieb:
> Marc Schwartz-3 wrote:
>   
>> I thought that readers of R-Help might find the following article at
>> ScienceNews of interest:
>>
>>   Odds Are, It's Wrong
>>   Science fails to face the shortcomings of statistics
>>   By Tom Siegfried
>>   March 27th, 2010; Vol.177 #7 (p. 26)
>>  
>> http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/57091/title/Odds_are,_its_wrong
>>
>>
>>     
>
> Too bad the article is so long that all my p-value-greedy colleagues from
> the medical faculty won't read it. 
>
> Journals should apply a post-hoc Bonferroni-correction by the number of
> p-values cited in an article.
>
>   

The main problem is the multitude of p-value not cited. I have little 
problems
with scientists publishing all their findings with p-values (or 
confidence intervals)
but big problems with people who use them as a filter.