P-value (Probability Value): The p-value is a statistical measure used in research to help decide whether the results of a study are likely due to chance. More specifically, it represents the ...

A small p-value often means the observed data effect is statistically significant. Set a significance level to compare with the p-value to validate investment hypotheses. Utilizing p-values in Excel ...

How many ostensibly "positive" studies are wrong? In this deep-dive analysis, MedPage Today clinical reviewer F. Perry Wilson, MD, explains that the number may be much higher than you think. Some ...

Last week a team of 72 scientists released the preprint of an article attempting to address one aspect of the reproducibility crisis, the crisis of conscience in which scientists are increasingly ...

Senior Lecturer in Comparative and Environmental Physiology, University of Roehampton How should scientists interpret their data? Emerging from their labs after days, weeks, months, even years spent ...