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Paper

2014

The New Statistics: Why and How

Geoff Cumming

Argues psychology should replace single-study null-hypothesis significance testing with estimation, confidence intervals and cumulative meta-analysis across studies, because a single p-value cannot say how big an effect is or how much to trust it.

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