title: A sensible formulation of the significance test.
abstract: The conventional procedure for null hypothesis significance testing has long been the target of appropriate criticism. A more reasonable alternative is proposed, one that not only avoids the unrealistic postulation of a null hypothesis but also, for a given parametric difference and a given error probability, is more likely to report the detection of that difference.
authors.affiliation: L.L. Thurstone psychometric Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3270, USA. lvjones@email.unc.edu
authors.forename: L V
authors.initials: LV
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Tukey
mesh_terms: D016001:Confidence Intervals; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D006801:Humans; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results