%0 Journal Article
%T Insights in Hypothesis Testing and Making Decisions in Biomedical Research
%A Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos
%A Varin Sacha
%J Archive of "The Open Cardiovascular Medicine Journal".
%D 2016
%R 10.2174/1874192401610010196
%X It is a fact that p values are commonly used for inference in biomedical and other social fields of research. Unfortunately, the role of p value is very often misused and misinterpreted; that is why it has been recommended the use of resampling methods, like the bootstrap method, to calculate the confidence interval, which provides more robust results for inference than does p value. In this review a discussion is made about the use of p values through hypothesis testing and its alternatives using resampling methods to develop confidence intervals of the tested statistic or effect measure
%K Biostatistics
%K Confidence intervals
%K Evidence based medicine
%K p value
%K Resampling
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5054503/