Statistical significance is a critical concept in data analysis and research. In essence, it’s a measure that allows researchers to assess whether the results of an experiment or study are due to ...

McShane, Blakeley B.; Bradlow, Eric T.; Lynch Jr., John G.; Meyer, Robert J. "Statistical Significance" and Statistical Reporting: Moving Beyond Binary. Journal of ...

A forgotten Guinness brewer's alternative approach could have prevented 100 years of mistakes in medicine, economics, and ...

It may be common knowledge that p < .05 indicates statistical significance. Psychology students (and others) are often taught that p < .05 means the probability (p) of rejecting the null hypothesis ...

In the middle of the 20 th century, the field of psychology had a problem. In the wake of the Manhattan Project and in the early days of the space race, the so-called “hard sciences” were producing ...

My print column this week examines the concept of statistical significance -- a concept that the Supreme Court recently weighed in on, but that remains elusive even to some scientists who use it to ...

Comprehensive guidelines on the presentation of statistical material in medical/dental journals have been published by Altman et al. elsewhere. 1 The following is a slightly adapted summary of those ...

Valen E. Johnson receives funding from the National Institutes of Health to perform biostatistical research on the selection of variables associated with cancer and cancer research. In their ...