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57 Post author: gwern 21 December 2012 04:45AM

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 21 December 2012 05:09:17PM *  2 points [-]

Confidence intervals.

p<.05 means that the null hypothesis is excluded from the 95% confidence interval. Thus there is no political cost and every p-value recipe is a fragment of an existing confidence interval recipe.

added: also, the maximum likelihood estimate is a single number that is closely related to confidence intervals, but I don't know if is sufficiently well-known among statistically-ignorant scientists to avoid controversy.