D. V. Lindley’s scientific contributions

... With complex origins, NHST was first introduced as a significance test by William Sealy Gosset [7] and Ronald Fisher [8,9]. This is followed by Jerzy Neyman [10], Egon Pearson, and Abraham Wald [11], who introduced tests of acceptance, incorporating concepts of alpha and beta error and decision functions. The NHST paradigm currently represents a subsequent unstandardized combination of these approaches [12][13][14][15][16]. Hence, whilst NHST is commonly encountered in clinical research, particularly in trials comparing interventions between two patient populations, it is not always considered part of method comparison studies in clinical laboratories. ...

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Clinical vs. statistical significance: considerations for clinical laboratories