P-Values and Scientific Reproducibility: What's all the Fuss? by Prof. Richard De Veaux, Wednesday, November 28, 2018, 1:10-1:50 pm

P-Values and Scientific Reproducibility: What’s all the Fuss? by Prof. Richard De Veaux, Statistics Colloquium, Wednesday, November 28, 2018, 1:10-1:50 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 105

Abstract:  Is science in a crisis?  In a recent survey in Nature, 90% of respondents agreed that there is either a slight or significant reproducibility crisis in science.  Some blame publishing pressures that lead to fabricated data or abusing real data by “P-hacking” them into “significance”.  Some blame the poor P-value itself.  A journal in Psychology went so far as to
ban P-values in future publications.  What does the American Statistical Association think about all this?  Come
and find out.