The Difference Between “Significant” and “Not Significant” is not Itself Statistically Significant
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The Difference between "Significant" and "Not Significant" Is Not Itself Statistically Significant
It is common to summarize statistical comparisons by declarations of statistical significance or non-significance. Here we discuss one problem with such declarations, namely that changes in statistical significance are often not themselves statistically significant. By this, we are not merely making the commonplace observation that any particular threshold is arbitrary—for example, only a small...
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عنوان ژورنال: The American Statistician
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0003-1305,1537-2731
DOI: 10.1198/000313006x152649