Here we offer a 'meta-methodology' and framework in which to evaluate epistemological foundations of proposed statistical methods. On the basis of this framework, we consider that many statistical ...

Two-sample t-tests are statistical tests used to compare the means of two populations. Also known as Student’s t-tests, their results are used to determine if there is a significant difference between ...

The books Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics (Wheeler, 1976) and Damned Lies and Statistics (Best, 2001) have raised questions about whether statistics can be trusted. A number of educated people today, ...