In the early 20 th century, Guinness breweries in Dublin had a policy of hiring the best graduates from Oxford and Cambridge to improve their industrial processes. At the time, it was considered a ...

During his Ph.D. research, mathematician Tyron Lardy worked on a new approach to hypothesis testing. Instead of the traditional p-value, he uses so-called e-values. These turn out to be more ...

At times we wish to examine statistical evidence, and determine whether it supports or contradicts a claim that has been made (or that we might wish to make) concerning the entire population. This is ...

In the realm of technical product development, hypothesis testing acts as a bridge between design, data and decision-making. It enables teams to move beyond assumptions and validate their ideas ...

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Chapter 5 argued that substantial improvements in the cost-effectiveness of operational testing can be achieved by test planning and state-of-the-art statistical methods for test design. It was also ...

Editor's Note: This post references research by Diederik Stapel. Many of his studies have since been found to be fradulent. Tomás de Torquemada, "The hammer of heretics," would have loved to hate the ...