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Is Statistical Significance Always Significant?

Nutrition in Clinical Practice, 2005
One way in which we learn new information is to read the medical literature. Whether or not we do primary research, it is important to be able to read literature in a critical fashion. A seemingly simple concept in reading is to interpret p values. For most of us, if we find a p value that is <.05, we take the conclusion to heart and quote it at ...
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But Is It Statistically Significant?

Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2017
We analyze 5,792 IR conference papers published over 20 years to investigate how researchers have used and are using statistical significance testing in their ...
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The Significance of Statistical Significance:

Law & Social Inquiry, 2009
This essay reviews The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives, by Stephen T. Ziliak and Deirdre N. McCloskey. The book's core message is that statistical significance should not be equated with substantive significance and that empirical researchers should convey more information about
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When Statistical Significance Is Not Enough: Investigating Relevance, Practical Significance, and Statistical Significance

MIS Quarterly, 2020
The notions of significance and relevance have provoked much controversy and confusion among those who conduct and those who are intended to be informed by quantitative research in the information systems (IS) field. The history of quantitative research in the IS field and beyond reveals not only disputes over the adequacy of statistical significance ...
Kaveh Mohajeri, Mostafa Mesgari, Allen S. Lee   +2 more
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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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THE STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF CANONICAL CORRELATIONS

Biometrika, 1941
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Statistical Significance and Policy Significance

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
Research findings sometimes play a part in the policy making process. This can happen through direct use of analysis, or through their impact on public perceptions and preferences as a result of media coverage. There are opportunities in this process for distortions to occur.
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