Recommendations on the use and nonuse of the p value in biomedical research

Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2017 Aug 15;74(16):1262-1266. doi: 10.2146/ajhp160443.

Authors

Madeline McCarren¹, Christian Hampp², Tobias Gerhard^{3

4}, Shekhar Mehta²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Veterans Affairs, PBM (10P4P), Hines, IL. madeline.mccarren@va.gov.
² Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD.
³ Department of Pharmacy Practice and Administration, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
⁴ Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

PMID: 28790078
DOI: 10.2146/ajhp160443

No abstract available

Keywords: bias; biomedical research; confidence interval; hypothesis testing; p value; statistical significance.

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MeSH terms

Biomedical Research*
Data Interpretation, Statistical*