Testing by betting: A strategy for statistical and scientific communication

The most widely used concept of statistical inference— the p-value—is too complicated for effective communication to a wide audience. This paper introduces a simpler way of reporting statistical evidence: report the outcome of a bet against the null hypothesis. This leads to a new role for likelihoo...

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Published in:Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A, Statistics in society Statistics in society, 2021-04, Vol.184 (2), p.407-431
Main Author: Shafer, Glenn
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic discourse
betting score
Communication
Confidence
Gambling
game‐theoretic probability
Inference
likelihood ratio
Meta-analysis
Null hypothesis
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Probability
p‐value
Statistical analysis
statistical communication
Statistical inference
Statistics
warranty
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