Confidence intervals and tests are two sides of the same research question

Frontiers in Psychology

Jose D. Perezgonzalez¹ 

关键词: confidence interval;    CI;    significance testing;    NHST;    Fisher;    Neyman-Pearson;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00034

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Cumming's (2014) article was commissioned by Psychological Science to reinforce the journal's 2014 publication guidelines. It exhorts substituting confidence intervals (CIs) for Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (NHST) as a way of increasing the scientific value of psychological research. Cumming's article is somehow biased, hence the aims of my commentary: to balance out the presentation of statistical tests and to fend CIs against misinterpretations. Researchers with an interest in the correct philosophical application of tests and CIs are my target audience.

【 授权许可】

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