Highlights
- •P value has been criticized for being a source of misinterpretation and deception.
- •New approaches have been advanced to improve reproducibility of scientific researches.
- •Lowering p value threshold was proposed to reduce rate of false positives.
- •The proposal to lower p threshold has unknown impact on evidence based medicine.
- •Lowering p value threshold to 0.005 has a modest impact on current ESC STEMI guideline.
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Publication history
Published online: June 04, 2020
Accepted:
May 23,
2020
Received in revised form:
May 13,
2020
Received:
April 29,
2020
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