Misuse of p-values is common in scientific research and scientific education. p-values are often used or interpreted incorrectly; the American Statistical...
13 KB (1,543 words) - 18:11, 7 June 2025
common practice in academic publications of many quantitative fields, misinterpretation and misuse of p-values is widespread and has been a major topic...
55 KB (6,801 words) - 18:04, 17 July 2025
data shows. That is, a misuse of statistics occurs when a statistical argument asserts a falsehood. In some cases, the misuse may be accidental. In others...
45 KB (5,990 words) - 12:48, 20 July 2025
misconception, and similar ones like it, contributes to the common misuse of p-values in education and research. If one were to flip a fair coin five times...
324 KB (32,732 words) - 19:52, 31 July 2025
Substance abuse (redirect from Misuse of drugs)
Substance misuse, also known as drug misuse or, in older vernacular, substance abuse, is the use of a drug in amounts or by methods that are harmful to...
102 KB (10,526 words) - 19:03, 18 July 2025
Scientific method (redirect from Interpretations of the scientific method)
field of metascience. Much research in metascience seeks to identify poor use of statistics and improve its use, an example being the misuse of p-values. The...
198 KB (23,316 words) - 07:14, 19 July 2025
Data dredging (redirect from P-hacking)
Data dredging, also known as data snooping or p-hacking is the misuse of data analysis to find patterns in data that can be presented as statistically...
27 KB (3,362 words) - 17:04, 16 July 2025
Detection limit (redirect from Limit of detection)
spectra of gamma-ray sources Malmquist bias – Sampling bias in astronomy p-value – Function of the observed sample results Misuse of p-values – Misinterpretation...
17 KB (2,177 words) - 20:15, 17 July 2025
Biostatistics (redirect from Statistics of biology)
ISSN 1326-0200. Baker, Monya (2016). "Statisticians issue warning over misuse of P values". Nature. 531 (7593): 151. Bibcode:2016Natur.531..151B. doi:10.1038/nature...
54 KB (6,600 words) - 15:08, 30 July 2025
In United States patent law, patent misuse is a patent holder's use of a patent to restrain trade beyond enforcing the exclusive rights that a lawfully...
35 KB (4,591 words) - 08:28, 25 May 2025
Metascience (redirect from Science of science)
particular note is the widespread misuse of p-values and abuse of statistical significance. Scientific data science is the use of data science to analyse research...
119 KB (12,449 words) - 00:54, 24 June 2025
accepted for publication in their journals since 2017. Abuse of statistics Misuse of p-values Metascience Nuijten, Michèle B. (2017-02-28). "BayesMed and...
13 KB (1,348 words) - 09:51, 20 June 2025
would be reflected in (and thus paid for by) increased land values. A low-rate land value tax is currently implemented throughout Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania...
84 KB (9,224 words) - 19:33, 2 August 2025
Beyond Chutzpah (redirect from Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History)
Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History is a book by Norman Finkelstein published by the University of California Press in...
13 KB (1,457 words) - 22:49, 21 June 2025
Statistics (redirect from Applications of statistics)
as the p-value). The standard approach is to test a null hypothesis against an alternative hypothesis. A critical region is the set of values of the estimator...
78 KB (8,835 words) - 00:51, 23 June 2025
The Misuse of Drugs Act 1973 is a statute of the Parliament of Singapore that enables authorities to prosecute offenders for crimes involving illegal drugs...
19 KB (1,763 words) - 03:43, 2 August 2025
perpetuity. The present value of the margin in perpetuity turns out to be the Margin divided by the Discount Rate. For retention values in between, the CLV...
20 KB (2,891 words) - 09:14, 20 July 2025
Prescription drug addiction (redirect from Misuse of prescription drugs)
category are supervised due to their potential for misuse and substance use disorder. The classes of medications most commonly abused are opioids, central...
45 KB (4,733 words) - 13:52, 18 July 2025
Misuse case is a business process modeling tool used in the software development industry. The term Misuse Case or mis-use case is derived from and is...
14 KB (1,929 words) - 11:41, 26 February 2024
Environment variable (redirect from %P STATION%)
via env or using the ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE=VALUE <command> notation. A running program can access the values of environment variables for configuration purposes...
102 KB (10,349 words) - 01:26, 22 June 2025
Alcoholism (redirect from Alcohol misuse disorder)
misuse, which can lead to a misdiagnosis such as schizophrenia. Panic disorder can develop or worsen as a direct result of long-term alcohol misuse....
158 KB (16,347 words) - 23:58, 3 August 2025
Papaver somniferum (redirect from P. somniferum)
September 2017. Section 9(4) of the Misuse of Drugs Act states, "It shall be a defense to a charge under subsection (1) [Cultivation of prohibited plants] if...
54 KB (6,002 words) - 19:21, 1 August 2025
Multicollinearity (category Design of experiments)
and p-values, by turning the results of the regression into a post hoc analysis. Because collinearity leads to large standard errors and p-values, which...
21 KB (2,391 words) - 17:15, 27 July 2025
cases involve diameter, speed, and volume. Sometimes the word "nominal" is misused in engineering contexts as a synonym for "normal" or "expected"; for example...
7 KB (1,036 words) - 02:50, 14 May 2025
Pregabalin (section Mechanism of action)
of 1970, which means that the drug has low abuse potential compared to substances in Schedules I-IV, however, there is still a potential for misuse....
103 KB (9,083 words) - 19:19, 25 July 2025
Diazepam (section Mechanism of action)
IV, Part I (CD Benz POM) of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001, allowing possession with a valid prescription. The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 makes it...
102 KB (9,944 words) - 00:53, 1 August 2025
Statistical hypothesis test (redirect from Critical value (statistics))
Critical values of a statistical test are the boundaries of the acceptance region of the test. The acceptance region is the set of values of the test...
80 KB (9,998 words) - 17:47, 7 July 2025
In 2016, Pym inadvertently violates the Sokovia Accords because of Lang's misuse of his technology, and becomes a fugitive along with Hope from the FBI...
263 KB (28,286 words) - 11:35, 2 August 2025
doomed loved ones, the misuse or misfiring of science, the gritty noir city, the driven vigilante, and the fateful 'return of the repressed'". The authors...
6 KB (802 words) - 14:01, 30 June 2025
AI safety (redirect from Misuse of artificial intelligence)
AI safety is an interdisciplinary field focused on preventing accidents, misuse, or other harmful consequences arising from artificial intelligence (AI)...
88 KB (10,513 words) - 22:49, 31 July 2025