[HSF] Trials and tribulations

[Tea Acuff]

We await enlightenment or at least a good swipe at intellectual hubris
Tea

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On Apr 3, 2009, at 7:23 AM, Anthony P Furnary MD <tfurnary at starrwood.com> wrote:

Bill,Tea, et al --

I think you will all be interested in our upcoming statistical paper in the Annals...

"What is the value of the p-value?"

Three weeks away...

Tony
On Apr 3, 2009, at 3:31 AM, wftjrtyler at aol.com wrote:


In a message dated 4/2/2009 9:54:31 PM Central Daylight Time,
tacuff at swbell.net writes:

But as we know and love of the surgical literature, the only piece of data
that has meaning is the "p value". Afterall one has to tailor ones level of
interest to the reader. If only I could master that trick.

As Dr. Frater has inferred,the "p value" is intellectually seductive, but
obfuscates the difference between statistical significance and clinical relevance
   bill
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