Fixed-Horizon Testing
One test at the horizon gives 0.0497. Twenty unplanned looks give 0.2477 with the same statistic and the same 1.96.
One test at the horizon gives 0.0497. Twenty unplanned looks give 0.2477 with the same statistic and the same 1.96.
Daily monitoring need not change inference. Stopping on a fixed-sample p-value does; valid sequential methods account for repeated looks and stopping.