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Beyond statistical significance

Applied Nursing Research, 1988
R ESEARCH for nursing is inquiry with a purpose beyond the usual definitions of describing, explaining, and predicting; research in nursing is directed toward improving patient care. Nurse leaders advocate research to improve practice and "better patient care through nursing research" (Abdellah & Levine, 1986). A specific process for improving practice
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Statistical Significance Versus Clinical Significance

Seminars in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, 2008
Unfortunately, the data were statistically nonsignificant due to insufficient power and poor experimental design. Conversely, many large clinical trials obtain a high level of statistical significance with miniscule differences between groups, which are completely clinically irrelevant.
Timothy T, Houle, David A, Stump
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COMPARISON OF STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE CRITERIA

Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, 2006
We study and compare two classes of statistical criteria to assess the significance of exceptional words. Indeed, the Z-score-like criteria, or the normal approximation that is a strict equivalent, suffer from several drawbacks in terms of sensitivity and specificity.
Mireille Régnier, Mathias Vandenbogaert
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Understanding Statistical Significance

Nursing Research, 2010
Statistical significance is often misinterpreted as proof or scientific evidence of importance. This article addresses the most common statistical reporting error in the biomedical literature, namely, confusing statistical significance with clinical importance.The aim of this study was to clarify the confusion between statistical significance and ...
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On the significance of statistical significance

The Journal of Pediatrics, 1975
Daniel Fife, Elizabeth Rappaport
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Statistical Significance in Psychical Research

Nature, 1953
(1) THE issue on which I chose to argue1 was clearly stated in my first paragraph. Taking the psychical research data (that is, the residuum when fraud and incompetence are excluded), I tried to show that these now threw more doubt upon existing presuppositions in the theory of probability than in the theory of communication.
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The ‘significance’ of statistical significance

Pain, 1993
Franklin Perry   +2 more
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