[Rd] Regression stars

[Ravi Varadhan]

I think that we should use P < .03 (which approximates the probability of 5 consecutive heads) for assigning significance!

Ravi

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From: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Frank Harrell
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 9:43 AM
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Subject: Re: [Rd] Regression stars

Uwe I've been consulting for decades and have never once been asked for such stars.  And when a clinical researcher puts a sentence in a study protocol that P<0.05 will be considered "significant" I get them to take it out.
Frank

Uwe Ligges-3 wrote
> On 12.02.2013 14:54, Ben Bolker wrote:
>> Duncan Murdoch
> <murdoch.duncan <at>
>  gmail.com> writes:
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>>    [snip]
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>>> Regarding stringsAsFactors:  I'm not going to defend keeping it as 
>>> is, I'll let the people who like it defend it.
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>>    Would someone (anyone) like to come forward and give us a defense 
>> of stringsAsFactors=TRUE -- even someone who doesn't personally like 
>> it but would like to play devil's advocate?
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> Sure:
> I will have to change all my scripts, my teaching examples, my book, 
> and lots of code examples for research and particularly consulting jobs.
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> Personally, I think having stringsAsFactors=TRUE is not too bad for
> read.table() but less useful for data.frame().
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> And since you ask for the devil's advocate already, related to the 
> subject line: Removing stars is horrible for consulting: With all 
> those people from biology, medicine and other fields who even ask us 
> questions in term of significance stars that are obviously very common for them.
> Many of them will certainly ask us for the stars, and ask us to switch 
> to another software product once they do not get it from R. They may 
> not be interested in being taught about the advantages or 
> disadvantages of p-values or stars.
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> There are different use cases of R, and I want to keep stars for 
> consulting tasks where things have to be delivered within minutes. I 
> am happy with or without for teaching, where I have the time and can 
> easily talk about the sense and nonsense of p-values.
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> Best,
> Uwe
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>>> What I will likely do is
>>> make a few changes so that character vectors are automatically 
>>> changed to factors in modelling functions, so that operating with 
>>> stringsAsFactors=FALSE doesn't trigger silly warnings.
>>>
>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>
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>>   [apologies for snipping context: "gmane made me do it"]
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