Evolution of ReportingPValues in the Biomedical Literature, 1990-2015

The use and misuse of P values has generated extensive debates.To evaluate in large scale the P values reported in the abstracts and full text of biomedical research articles over the past 25 years and determine how frequently statistical information is presented in ways other than P values.Automated text-mining analysis was performed to extract data on P values reported in 12,821,790 MEDLINE abstracts and in 843,884 abstracts and full-text...