An alternative to the p-value

*Blog post
2008
Being updated
Hypothesis testing
Author

Steve Simon

Published

April 3, 2008

This page is currently being updated from the earlier version of my website. Sorry that it is not yet fully available.

A discussion on edstat-l concerned a statistic called p-rep. I had not heard of this statistic before, but at least one journal is calling for its use in all papers published by that journal.

There is a nice description of this method in a publication by Peter Killeen, and a detailed bibliography plus an Excel spreadsheet is available as a ZIP file.

This statistic sounds suspiciously like a post hoc power calculation, but I have not examined the formulas in any detail. When things get calmer here (they are never completely calm), I will try to describe this in more detail.

Earlier versions are here and here.

Also see this page.