P values in display items are ubiquitous and almost invariably significant: A survey of top science journals.

P values represent a widely used, but pervasively misunderstood and fiercely contested method of scientific inference. Display items, such as figures and tables, often containing the main results, are an important source of P values. We conducted a survey comparing the overall use of P values and th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ioana Alina Cristea, John P A Ioannidis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5953482?pdf=render