significance testing

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significance
noun[U]
uk /sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kəns/ us /sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kəns/
importance:
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testing
adjective
uk /ˈtes.tɪŋ/ us /ˈtes.tɪŋ/
difficult:
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These virtues do not, however, extend to most of the applications for which psychology relies on statistical significancetesting.
For significancetesting, 6 s of recording were divided into 100-150 ms bins.
While this exercise does not affect the precision and significancetesting of narrow-sense heritability estimates, it may introduce bias in their magnitude.
Significancetesting is most relevant for estimating the generalizability of the results from a sample to a larger population.
In both checks, we obtained the same effects as shown in this table, both in terms of significancetesting and substantive interpretation.
However, statistical power posed a problem for significancetesting.
To arrive at definitive conclusions regarding these comparisons, we assumed a statistical methodology based on statistical significancetesting.
In general, the psychological community relies on significancetesting as the metric of whether two groups differ.
The small number of generations and the continuous distribution of generation numbers hampered significancetesting of changes in allele frequencies.
We also note that the interpretation of significancetesting of correlations is unclear in the present context.
Even more problematic, they do not provide sufficient information for other researchers to do their own significancetesting.
For model selection and significancetesting, we therefore suggest a different randomization testing procedure (as described).
Significancetesting was performed on each chromosome separately using chromosome- and genome-wide criteria as describe in the text.
Significancetesting is based upon unweighted m re-computed from weighted proportions.
To date few such studies have included females in large enough numbers to study the rare phenomenon of the life-coursepersistent girl with adequate power for significancetesting.
We performed significancetesting using 1000 permutations of the data within each population.
Cohen (1977, 1988) pointed out that significancetesting can be misleading if not interpreted in relation to the magnitude of effect size.
Furthermore, repeated significancetesting for seasonal trends for individual lesions runs the risk of introducing a so-called 'type 1' statistical error.
In fact, the reasonableness of rejecting the chance hypothesis on the basis of a statistically significant result has been in question since the beginning of significancetesting.
Expected mean squares and variance components were calculated, and used to construct synthetic denominators that accommodated the unbalanced design and allowed significancetesting.
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