Statistical Significance, Effect Size, and Replication: What Do the...

The Journal of Experimental Education;  March 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ......the reporting of results from statistical significance tests and the use of techniques...the reporting of results from statistical significance testing. However, the respondents...publication. Key words: effect size, statistical significance testing, survey THE EARLY 1900s...

Alphas and asterisks: the development of statistical significance testing...

Social Forces;  September 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......level do you use when testing for statistical significance? Many sociologists today would...use to indicate this level of statistical significance? Many sociologists would say one...the .05 percent level. How did statistical significance testing become normative? How...

Statistical significance and effect size in education research: two sides...

The Journal of Educational Research;  May 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......education research, statistical significance testing has received...because the outcome of statistical significance testing relies too...much reliance on statistical significance testing often limits...

"Statistical," "practical," and clinical": how many kinds of significance...

Journal of Counseling and Development;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Statistical significance tests have a long history...is not to argue whether statistical significance tests should be banned...should not consider only statistical significance when conducting inquiries...

An Introduction to Clinical Significance: An Alternative Index of...

Journal of Early Intervention;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......experimental design research: (a) statistical significance testing and (b) practical significance...practitioners. These include a) statistical significance tests, b) effect sizes (i.e...employing them. Historically, statistical significance tests have been the most prominent...

Effect Sizes and "What If" Analyses as Supplements to Statistical...

Journal of Early Intervention;  July 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...As shortcomings of traditional statistical significance testing have been highlighted...denotes formula omitted.) Tests of statistical significance are a common tool of quantitative...relationship between variables. Statistical significance testing has drawn serious criticism...

Why 'encouraging' effect size reporting is not working: the etiology of...

The Journal of Psychology;  March 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......at least supplement, the use of statistical significance tests (e.g., Hunter, 1997; Kirk...on the extraordinary limits of statistical significance tests has been published in the...three themes stand out. First, statistical significance tests do not evaluate result importance...

The significance of significance [Determination of statistical...

Canadian Journal of Respiratory Therapy;  April 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......what's not because they confuse statistical significance with importance. They put every...Potatohead." In research, they mutter, "statistical significance, statistical significance." In previous Research corner articles...

Statistical significance testing practices in The Journal of Experimental...

The Journal of Experimental Education;  September 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ......AWAY from emphasizing the use of statistical significance testing and toward emphasizing...particularly regarding the use of statistical significance tests. Even before the appointment...two types of probability values [statistical significance tests] reflects the importance...

Commentary on spreadsheets for analysis of controlled trials.(Perspective

Sportscience;  January 1, 2006 ;     584 words ......approaches based exclusively on statistical significance have been well documented (Batterham...of outcomes solely reliant on statistical significance. The initial spreadsheets developed...traditional analysis based on statistical significance. One limitation of the original...

Cobalis Corp. PreHistin(TM) Significantly Reduces Allergy Symptoms in 714...

PR Newswire;  October 27, 2005 ;     700+ words ......PreHistin(TM) Achieves Clinical and Statistical Significance (p= 0.0028) Versus Placebo; Study...demonstrated strong clinical and statistical significance that PreHistin(TM), when administered...of variance) model to determine statistical significance of effects among the 4 study ...

Effect size use in studies of learning disabilities.

Journal of Learning Disabilities;  November 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......have gone so far as to argue that statistical significance testing has actually interfered...expressed concern is simply that statistical significance testing identifies statistically...participants or degrees of freedom) and statistical significance. Even the smallest ...

Significance tests and confidence intervals for the adverse impact ratio

Personnel Psychology;  April 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......the focus on practical versus statistical significance, and on differing operational...contradictory evidence based on a test of statistical significance presented by the opponent (Rich...the focus on practical versus statistical significance. The four-fifths rule evaluates...

Applying the bootstrap to the multivariate case: Bootstrap...

Behavior Research Methods;  May 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......efforts on null hypothesis statistical significance testing (NHSST), but in recent...understand two major limitations of statistical significance: the dependency of statistical significance upon sample size and the fact...

Bimodality of the Planetary-Scale Atmospheric Wave Amplitude Index

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......of the regimes and increase the statistical significance. The statistical significance of bimodality in the probability...studies about the robustness and statistical significance of the bimodality of the WAI are...