S. Rincon-Gallardo, C. P. Quesenberry and Federico J. O'Reilly The Annals of Statistics publishes research papers of the highest quality reflecting the many facets of contemporary statistics. Primary ...

Praxis the robot and Alan the “human man” look at the history of mathematical probability. They meet Galileo, whose work with dice brings him under the suspicion of some rather violent inquisitors.

It may be common knowledge that p < .05 indicates statistical significance. Psychology students (and others) are often taught that p < .05 means the probability (p) of rejecting the null hypothesis ...