The role of significance testing: some data with a message

摘要: SUMMARY In the context of experimental data, allowance for data-snooping in significance testing is found to conflict with power considerations. Appendices give (a) specific results nonparametric statistics employed, (b) general theorems concerning expected level and (c) data-snooping. (b), a correction made lacuna Dempster Schatzoff. 1. EXPERIMENTAL DATA Table 1 gives experimentally ascertained estimates half-lives minutes exponential decay potentiation response depolarized rat uterus vasopressin by magnesium cobalt.