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Beyond statistical significance
Applied Nursing Research, 1988R 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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Understanding Statistical Significance
Nursing Research, 2010Statistical 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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Is Statistical Significance Always Significant?
Nutrition in Clinical Practice, 2005One 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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The significance of statistical significance
Intensive and Critical Care Nursing, 1997Currently, much nursing practice is based on limited evidence, for example, small-scale research, case studies and clinical experience. In a mature science this would be undesirable, but nursing is in the early stages of development as a science, and many of its practices depend on relatively informal knowledge.
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Does Statistical Significance Equal Real Significance
Pediatrics, 1985To the Editor.— In what is probably the best-controlled study ever published on the controversial question of the effect of stressful life events in a family on childhood illness, Beautrais et al1 have demonstrated unequivocally that those events correlate positively with childhood morbidity.
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2021
This chapter highlights statistical significance. The key question in quantitative analysis is whether a pattern observed in a sample also holds for the population from which the sample was drawn. A positive answer to this question implies that the result is ‘statistically significant’ — i.e.
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This chapter highlights statistical significance. The key question in quantitative analysis is whether a pattern observed in a sample also holds for the population from which the sample was drawn. A positive answer to this question implies that the result is ‘statistically significant’ — i.e.
Jean-Frédéric Morin +2 more
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Retiring statistical significance
Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research, 2019openaire +2 more sources
Statistically significant or significant?
Canadian Medical Association journal, 2010R L, Kirby, J B, Garner, P J, King
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The Significance of Statistical Significance
New England Journal of Medicine, 1983openaire +2 more sources