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Statistical significance: A statistician's view

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1998

Helena Chmura Kraemer
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 hck@leland.stanford.edu

Abstract

From a statistician's viewpoint, the concepts discussed by Chow relating to “statistical” significance bear little resemblance to the concept developed in statistics. Whether or not “statistical significance” has a place in psychological research is a decision for psychologists, not statisticians, to make, but the decision should be based on a less flawed version of what is being considered.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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