{"id":693,"date":"2016-03-07T11:26:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T18:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=693"},"modified":"2024-07-29T16:34:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T22:34:09","slug":"p-values-dirty-little-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/p-values-dirty-little-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"p value&#8217;s Dirty Little Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Statistical Association (ASA) has issued <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/00031305.2016.1154108\">a statement about statistical significance and \u00a0<em>p<\/em> values.\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0It quotes ScienceNews article from 2010:\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s science\u2019s dirtiest secret: The \u2018scientific<br \/>\nmethod\u2019 of testing hypotheses by statistical analysis stands on a flimsy foundation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Six Sigma spends a lot of time on <a href=\"\/hypothesis-testing\/\">hypothesis testing using\u00a0<em>p\u00a0<\/em>values<\/a>, but our use of\u00a0<em>p\u00a0<\/em>values\u00a0may lack the rigor required. The ASA states:\u00a0By itself, a p-value does not provide a good measure of evidence regarding a model or\u00a0hypothesis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Statistical Association (ASA) has issued a statement about statistical significance and &nbsp;p values.&nbsp;&nbsp;It quotes ScienceNews article from 2010:&nbsp;&ldquo;It&rsquo;s science&rsquo;s dirtiest secret: The &lsquo;scientific method&rsquo; of testing hypotheses by statistical analysis stands on a flimsy foundation.&rdquo; Six Sigma spends a lot of time on hypothesis testing using&nbsp;p&nbsp;values, but our use of&nbsp;p&nbsp;values&nbsp;may lack the rigor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[181,180],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-six-sigma","tag-hypothesis-testing","tag-p-value"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7097,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions\/7097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}