Daniel H. Mowrey, Jonathan Potts, Susan Spruill, Walter Stroup, and Michiko I. Wolcott

The call for banning p-values by the editors of a noted scientific journal in 2015 continues to frustrate statisticians. While such controversies typically surface around a specific statistical concept such as p-values, they are symptoms of a larger problem that includes communication gaps and mistrust of statistics in the scientific/business communities.

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