Comments on the p-Value Debate and Good Statistical Practice
Joachim Aurbacher, Enno Bahrs, Martin Banse, Sebastian Hess, Stefan Hirsch, Silke Hüttel, Uwe Latacz-Lohmann, Oliver Mußhoff, Martin Odening, Ramona Teuber
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Hess Department of Agricultural Policy and Market Analysis, University of Hohenheim Schwerzstrasse 46, 70593 Stuttgart, Germany email: s.hess@uni-hohenheim.de
Beyond P-Value-Obsession: When are Statistical Hypothesis Tests Required and Appropriate?
Published: 21.10.2022 Authors: Anne Margarian
Complementing more specific “p-value discussions”, this paper presents fundamental arguments for when null hypothesis statistical significance tests (NHST) are required and appropriate. The arguments, which are paradigmatic rather than technical, are operationalised and broken down to the extent that their logic can be mapped into a decision tree for the use of NHST. We derive…
Pig Farming from the Perspective of German Citizens – Comments on Videos of a Pig Fattening Pen
Published: 01.12.2020 Authors: Anna Schulze Walgern, Marcus Mergenthaler
There is an increasing discrepancy between agriculture and the population. Studies confirmed that livestock farming has a poor image. In the present study, in an online survey 500 German citizens were shown videos from a pig fattening pen. In addition to the determination of the attitude to the housing system, the survey participants were given…
The p-Value Debate and Statistical (Mal)practice – Implications for the Agricultural and Food Economics Community
Published: 03.03.2023 Authors: Thomas Heckelei, Silke Hüttel, Martin Odening, Jens Rommel
A vivid debate is ongoing in the scientific community about statistical malpractice and the related publication bias. No general consensus exists on the consequences and this is reflected in heterogeneous rules defined by scientific journals on the use and reporting of statistical inference. This paper aims at providing an overview on the debate, discussing how…
