Alternatives to the p-value Criterion for Statistical Significance (with R code)

Better approaches to making statistical decisions

Jae Kim
Towards Data Science
8 min readMar 12, 2023

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In establishing statistical significance, the p-value criterion is almost universally used. The criterion is to reject the null hypothesis (H0) in favour of the alternative (H1), when the p-value is less than the level of significance (α). The…

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