At 7:39 AM -0500 11/11/02, Rob Flint wrote:
Rob--One of my students doing her senior thesis ran her stats and got results of .056 and .08 for two different ANOVAs. In the past I have seen published studies indicating that these are "marginally significant." How do you deal with results of this nature? More importantly, do you have any citations (journals or books) that discuss the value of including/discussing results that seem to "approach significance"?
As I recall my stats, 'significance' is a binary decision about which distribution a given result belongs in, according to some predetermined criterion.
Therefore, as long as your results fall into the same distribution as your control, they are not statistically significant no matter how close they _appear_ to be.
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