David Colquhoun

Professor of Pharmacology, University College London

David Colquhoun is a professor of pharmacology at University College London and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is the author of Lectures on Biostatistics (1971) and blogs at DC’s Improbable Science.

Written by David Colquhoun

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Mathematics

The problem with p-values

Academic psychology and medical testing are both dogged by unreliability. The reason is clear: we got probability wrong

David Colquhoun