# Treatment Choice With Trial Data: Statistical Decision Theory Should Supplant Hypothesis Testing

@article{Manski2019TreatmentCW,
title={Treatment Choice With Trial Data: Statistical Decision Theory Should Supplant Hypothesis Testing},
author={Charles F. Manski},
journal={The American Statistician},
year={2019},
volume={73},
pages={296 - 304}
}
• C. Manski
• Published 20 March 2019
• Psychology
• The American Statistician
Abstract A central objective of empirical research on treatment response is to inform treatment choice. Unfortunately, researchers commonly use concepts of statistical inference whose foundations are distant from the problem of treatment choice. It has been particularly common to use hypothesis tests to compare treatments. Wald’s development of statistical decision theory provides a coherent frequentist framework for use of sample data on treatment response to make treatment decisions. A body… Expand
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