Statistical testing is, at least in theory, pretty straightforward: State your null hypothesis; Design a study and get some data; Apply a statistical test to the data to obtain a P value; and If ...

This paper presents a review and critique of statistical null hypothesis testing in ecological studies in general, and wildlife studies in particular, and describes an alternative. Our review of ...

The earlier version of this paper was posted under the title “Does your state have 14-days of declining COVID-19 cases? Finding straightforward answers to a surprisingly tricky question.” ...

The power of these statistics is seen to depend on the null, the alternative, and the sequence of DGP's in a simple and geometrically intuitive way. Moreover, for any test statistic that is ...