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Title: | Why proper understanding of confidence intervals and statistical significance is important. |
Author: | Hurley, James C. |
Issue Date: | 2021 |
Publication Title: | Medical Journal of Australia |
Volume: | 215 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page: | 190 |
End Page: | 190.e1 |
Abstract: | To the Editor: The explanation of inference from confidence intervals by Hemming and Taljaard is interesting but unfortunately incorrect. The authors may have fallen for the confidence interval variation of the P value fallacy — the mistaken idea that the P value (or confidence interval) can capture both the long term outcomes of an experiment, as commonly reflected in the phrase “a trend to significance (P = 0.06)”, and the evidential meaning of a single result... |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11054/1821 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.51194 |
Internal ID Number: | 01795 |
Health Subject: | PROBABILITY STATISTICS |
Type: | Journal Article Letter |
Appears in Collections: | Research Output |
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