The Difference Between “Significant” and “Not Significant” is not Itself Statistically Significant
Abstract
It is common to summarize statistical comparisons by declarations of statistical significance or nonsignificance. 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 change is required to move an estimate from a 5.1%...
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Title
The Difference Between “Significant” and “Not Significant” is not Itself Statistically Significant
Published Date
Nov 1, 2006
Journal
Volume
60
Issue
4
Pages
328 - 331
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