Commentary: The P-value, devalued

Commentary: The P-value, devalued.

the many honorifics bestowed on the articles in this historical series, it is doubtful that any have had applied the best—funny. The rhetorical zest and smiling outrage that Joseph Berkson brings to his puncturing of the quasi-religious precepts of traditional statistics in his classic article 1 recalls for me a public debate I witnessed in the 1980s between a highly respected statistician and ...

Commentary: the value of the clinical interview.

The potential for violence among hospitalized psychiatric patients is not a new phenomenon. Risk prediction in hospitalized psychiatric patients requires, in addition to actuarial tools, a firsthand understanding of the patient's psychiatric disorder, symptoms, personality structure, coping skills, and defense mechanisms. The current state of psychiatric hospital care and treatment of mental il...

Research Commentary - Too Big to Fail: Large Samples and the p-Value Problem

Interpreting the P Value

We appreciate the support of Teramoto and colleagues for the concepts outlined in our recent commentary in CHEST (August 2010), 1 which include the importance of a multidisciplinary approach to evaluating interstitial pneumonia (IP) and emphasize the usefulness of specifi c autoantibodies, such as anticyclic citrul linated peptide (CCP), as part of the assessment for connec tive tissue disease-...

Biotypes : Promise and P Commentary

This issue of Biological Psychiatry contains a thoughtprovoking article by Ivleva et al. (1) reporting on data generated as part of the Bipolar-Schizophrenia Network for Intermediate Phenotypes (B-SNIP) project. The B-SNIP project is an important effort that was started to help identify the similarities and differences across individuals with a spectrum of psychotic disorders, including schizop...