Soenke Bartling–Nov 19, 2009 (last modified on Dec 11, 2009)
Statistical significance ? p<0.05 does NOT mean that my hypothesis is with a probability of 95% correct! It means, that if my hypothesis is wrong the likelihood of my finding would be 5% due to chance. Turning this around is a major mistake, even done by many professionals!
Tags: Mathematics, Other, Statistical significance, Probability
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- Ijad Madisch wrote on Nov 21, 2009 8:00 pmGreat microarticle. Thanks for that, Soenke.
- Soenke Bartling wrote on Nov 23, 2009 3:49 pmFor a more in depth explanation:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1119478/?tool=pubmed - Jan Kantert wrote on Nov 24, 2009 12:09 amThats a nice one!
- Lenin Cadena wrote on Apr 9, 2010 9:12 pmIt´s an interesting issue....
- Soenke Bartling wrote on May 7, 2010 9:08 amSome more interesting reading (German!) : http://www.uke.de/institute/allgemeinmedizin/downloads/institut-allgemeinmedizin/Die_Bedeutung_der_statistischen_Signifikanz.pdf
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