Nowadays authors in the fields of statistics and machine learning often choose to write their books openly by publishing early draft versions. For popular books this creates a lot of feedback and in the end clearly improves the final book when it is published.

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P-Values (see also Jim Berger's page on p-values) are probably one of the most misunderstood concepts in statistics and certainly have been abused in statistical practice. Originally proposed as an informal diagnostic by Ronald Fisher, there are many reasons for the bad reputation of p-values, and in many relevant situations …