12: The Logical Structure of Formal Statistical Inference — Read

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“A useful property of a test of significance is that it exerts a sobering influence on the type of experimenter who jumps to conclusions on scanty data, and who might otherwise try to make everyone excited about some sensational treatment effect that can well be ascribed to the ordinary variation in his experiment.”

Gertrude Mary Cox

12.1: What to Expect
12.2: Hypotheses
12.3: Estimation and Evidence
12.4: Rejection Regions and Risk
12.5: Observed Significance Levels
12.6: Interval Estimation
12.7: Critical Analysis
- 12.7.1: Race and Depression Treatment
12.8: Summary
12.9: About the Quotation
12.10: Practice and Exploration
12.11: References

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