Journal article
The Ethics of Alpha: Reflections on Statistics, Evidence and Values in Medicine
Abstract
As health care embraces the tenets of evidence-based medicine it is important to ask questions about how evidence is produced and interpreted. This essay explores normative dimensions of evidence production, particularly around issues of setting the tolerable level of uncertainty of results. Four specific aspects are explored: what health care providers know about statistics, why alpha levels have been set at 0.05, the role of randomization in …
Authors
Upshur REG
Journal
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Vol. 22, No. 6, pp. 565–576
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
September 2001
DOI
10.1023/a:1014462116530
ISSN
1386-7415