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The percent difference fallacy and a solution: the ratio t-test

Wednesday, September 12th, 2018

One of the most common forms of statistical malpractice I see as a reviewer and reader of scientific literature is using a null hypothesis statistical test (NHST) to declare an effect "significant" and then using this as justification for reporting completely unqualified percentage differences among treatments with no attempt to ...

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