A discussion of the question: for what use are tests of hypotheses and tests of significance
Communication in Statistics- Theory and MethodsPublished 1 January 1976
John W. Pratt
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Abstract
The author believes that tests provide a poor model of most real problems, usually so poor that their objectivity is tangential and often too poor to be useful.
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