Much of today's scientific knowledge has been generated by what has colloquially been termed the 'scientific method'. The Oxford English Dictionary defines the scientific method as “a method or ...

Challenging risk assessment methods used for decades by toxicologists, a new review of the literature suggests that oral gavage, the most widely accepted method of dosing lab animals to test chemical ...

It turns out that there is a striking similarity between how the human brain determines what is going on in the outside world and the job of scientists. Good science involves formulating a hypothesis ...

In this paper, we show that the conditional frequentist method of testing a precise hypothesis can be made virtually equivalent to Bayesian testing. The conditioning strategy proposed by Berger, Brown ...

In the Neyman-Pearson theory of hypothesis testing it is customary to calculate significance levels and power functions on the assumption that the sample size is fixed. The main purpose of this paper ...