Significance testing, with appropriate multiple testing correction, is currently the most convenient method for summarizing the evidence for association between a disease and a genetic variant.

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I have defended the use of significance testing, suggesting that the p value can play a role as a heuristic inferential cue. It does predict the inverse conditional probability, that of the tested ...

Low statistical power undermines the purpose of scientific research; it reduces the chance of detecting a true effect. Perhaps less intuitively, low power also reduces the likelihood that a ...

Ahead of the India-US 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for South and Southeast Asia, US Defence, Dr Joseph H Felter said on Wednesday that the upcoming dialogue ...