{"id":63,"date":"2016-03-10T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/2016\/03\/10\/what-s-the-value-of-this-value\/"},"modified":"2016-03-10T10:59:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T10:59:00","slug":"what-s-the-value-of-this-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/2016\/03\/10\/what-s-the-value-of-this-value\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the value of this value?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;`The p-value was never intended to be a substitute for scientific reasoning,&#8217; the ASA\u2019s executive director, Ron Wasserstein, said in a press release.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Note that p-values are metrics, measures of a particular probability under certain assumptions.\u00a0 As usual, the Goal &#8211; Question\/Signal &#8211; Metric framework is appropriate:\u00a0 the goal would be to determine, say, if a new drug is efficacious in the treatment of some condition; the question would be whether or not it could reasonably be concluded to be the cause of some observed effect in some experimental trial; and the p-value would be a metric that would help answer that question.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/statisticians-found-one-thing-they-can-agree-on-its-time-to-stop-misusing-p-values\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/statisticians-found-one-thing-they-can-agree-on-its-time-to-stop-misusing-p-values\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;`The p-value was never intended to be a substitute for scientific reasoning,&#8217; the ASA\u2019s executive director, Ron Wasserstein, said in a press release.&#8221; \u00a0 Note that p-values are metrics, measures of a particular probability under certain assumptions.\u00a0 As usual, the Goal &#8211; Question\/Signal &#8211; Metric framework is appropriate:\u00a0 the goal would be to determine, say,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/2016\/03\/10\/what-s-the-value-of-this-value\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What&#8217;s the value of this value?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-perils-of-metrics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}