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  • 1.  Call for papers: Entropy Special Issue on Statistical Significance and the Logic of Hypothesis Testing

    Posted 11-26-2015 13:25
    Call for papers:

    Special Issue on "Statistical Significance and the Logic of Hypothesis
    Testing" for Entropy.
    (ISSN 1099-4300; http://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy).

    A short prospectus is given at the volume website:
    http://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/special_issues/statistical_significance

    This special issue will be fully Open Access. More information is
    available at http://www.mdpi.com/about/openaccess/.

    Entropy is an open access journal which maintains a rigorous and fast
    peer-review system and accepted papers are immediately published
    online. Because it is an online and open access journal, papers
    published in Entropy will receive high publicity. It is fully covered
    by the leading indexing and abstracting services, including Google
    Scholar, MathSciNet, Scopus and Science Citation Index Expanded (Web
    of Science). The Impact Factor for Entropy is 1.502 (2014); 5-Year
    Impact Factor: 1.579 (2014).

    The importance of using hypothesis testing in the development of
    research is widely recognized by the general scientific community.
    This Special Issue focuses on statistical significance and the logic
    of hypothesis testing and their proper application in practical
    problems.

    Specific areas of interest include (but are not limited to):

    * Formal applications of hypothesis testing to novel applied problems.
    Philosophical accounts of hypothesis testing (including contributions
    arguing for or against those).
    * Methodological developments of hypothesis testing (taking in account
    the practical usability of them).
    * Logical accounts of hypothesis testing.
    * Logical (compositional) properties of truth values.
    * Statistical significance measures.
    * Epistemology of statistical significance.
    * Coherence properties of significance measures.
    * Surveys of the state of the art in one of the above areas.


    The official deadline for submission is 30 May 2016. However, you may
    send your manuscript at any time before the deadline. We can organize
    a very fast peer-review, if accepted, the paper will be published
    immediately.

    The special issue editors:

    Prof. Dr. Julio Stern
    University of Sao Paulo, jstern@ime.usp.br

    Prof. Dr. Adriano Polpo
    Federal University of Sao Carlos, polpo@ufscar.br

    Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any further questions.


  • 2.  RE: Call for papers: Entropy Special Issue on Statistical Significance and the Logic of Hypothesis Testing

    Posted 11-30-2015 16:52

    Might this special Issue be in response to banning on the use of p-values in some journals?  It is not clear to me what the editors are hoping to do with this special issue.

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    Susan Spruill
    Statistical Consultant

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  • 3.  RE: Call for papers: Entropy Special Issue on Statistical Significance and the Logic of Hypothesis Testing

    Posted 12-01-2015 11:12

    Dear Susan,

    p-values are just one option for hypothesis test. We are not against them, what we expect with the special issue is a place to discuss theoretical questions about the significance indices, but also practical questions. It could be from a Bayesian perspective or frequentist. We understand that in many fields of science, the hypothesis are tested every day, and it is important to discuss this. So the idea of the special issue is simple, it is a place to discuss. We are very open to any ideas and we are interested in listen anyone that would like to present a work in this theme.

    Best,

    Adriano.

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    Adriano Polpo de Campos
    Associate Professor
    Federal University of Sao Carlos

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  • 4.  RE: Call for papers: Entropy Special Issue on Statistical Significance and the Logic of Hypothesis Testing

    Posted 12-02-2015 10:21

    Thank you for the clarification.  I would like to collaborate with someone on the topic of clarifying the difference between hypothesis testing, point estimations, and decision making.  If any of the readers of this forum are interested, please let me know.  My background is pharmaceutical statistics, predominately using frequentist methods.  My email is sspruill@appstatsconsulting.com

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    Susan Spruill
    Statistical Consultant

    Original Message