F. Perry Wilson, MD MSCE (@fperrywilson) 's Twitter Profile
F. Perry Wilson, MD MSCE

@fperrywilson

Director, Clinical and Translational Research Accelerator @Yale. Columnist @medscape. How Medicine Works and When It Doesn't in bookstores now!

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1/ A student just asked me why, if the p-value for a study is 0.04, we can't say the study has a 4% chance of being a false positive. First off, we definitely can't, even under idealized conditions - here's a brief thread as to why.