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I can see clearly now: Reinterpreting statistical significance [PDF]
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2018 Null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) remains popular despite decades of concern about misuse and misinterpretation. There are many recent suggestions for mitigating problems arising from NHST, including calls for abandoning NHST in favour of ...
J. Dushoff, Morgan P. Kain, B. Bolker
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Statistically significant results from low-power analyses: A comedy of errors
Global EpidemiologyBackground: When low-power analyses yield statistically significant results, they likely overestimate the true effect. Although sample estimates are symmetrically distributed around the true value, those that are by chance very high are more likely to ...
Cyril Jaksic +2 more
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On reporting and interpreting statistical significance and p values in medical research
BMJ evidence-based medicine, 2019 Recent proposals to change the p value threshold from 0.05 to 0.005 or to retire statistical significance altogether have garnered much criticism and debate.1 2 As of the writing of our manuscript, the proposal to eliminate statistical significance ...
Herman Aguinis, M. Vassar, C. Wayant
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Statistical Significance of Threading Scores [PDF]
Journal of Computational Biology, 2011 Abstract We present a general method for assessing threading score significance. The threading score of a protein sequence, thread onto a given structure, should be compared with the threading score distribution of a random amino-acid sequence, of the same length, thread on the same structure; small p-values point significantly high ...
Afshin Fayyaz Movaghar +4 more
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Statistical significance of quantitative PCR
BMC Bioinformatics, 2007 Background PCR has the potential to detect and precisely quantify specific DNA sequences, but it is not yet often used as a fully quantitative method.
Mazza Christian +4 more
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What do we be after? Holy p value (statistical significance) or clinical significance?
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, 2011 Most of the readers decide on results and significance according to the p values which are given in the manuscript when they are reading. In fact, the p value which shows the statistical significance is important if it supports the clinical significance.
Selim Kılıc
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Statistical Significance for Hierarchical Clustering [PDF]
Biometrics, 2017 Summary Cluster analysis has proved to be an invaluable tool for the exploratory and unsupervised analysis of high-dimensional datasets. Among methods for clustering, hierarchical approaches have enjoyed substantial popularity in genomics and other fields for their ability to simultaneously uncover multiple layers of clustering structure.
Kimes, Patrick K. +3 more
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Statistical significance test results.
, 2014 Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test was performed to determine the statistical significance of comparing the means of the similarity scores for each pair of methods on coding (C) and non-coding (NC) sequences.Significance level of 0.05.
Rebeca Romo-Vázquez (660012) +5 more
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روانشناسی بالینی و شخصیت, 2014 Statistical significant methods are usually used to evaluate the effectiveness of the psychological treatments however, these methods have a number of inherent limitations.
M.A Asghari Moghaddam, M.R Shairi
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Tests of Statistical Significance
, 2018 Chapter 3 provides a brief overview of null hypothesis significance testing and points out its primary defects. It then outlines the neo-Fisherian account of tests of statistical significance, along with a second option contained in the philosophy of ...
Brian D. Haig
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