P values and confidence intervals are often used in science and medicine to quantify chance and uncertainty. An essay in Nature , however, claims that probability isn’t an objective property of a ...

If is the log likelihood evaluated at the maximum likelihood estimate , then has a limiting chi-square distribution with one degree of freedom if is the true parameter value. A confidence interval for ...

This has gone as far as some journals banning the use of indicators for statistical significance, or even any reports of 𝑝-values, and, in one case, any mention of confidence intervals. I discuss ...