The frequentist facade and the flight from evidential inference.

Recent critics of the use of significance tests (e.g. Cohen, 1994) recommend the use of confidence intervals. They use Bayes' theorem in frequentist examples aimed at illustrating the ‘odds-against-chance fantasy’ (Carver, 1978). It is argued below that their criticisms are inappropriate and confu...

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Published in:	British Journal of Psychology Vol. 89; no. 2; pp. 325 - 346
Main Author:	Grayson, D. A.
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell May 1998
Subjects:	Psychological techniques Psychology > Statistical methods Statistical significance
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost