My favorite definition of statistical significance

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 2017-10-28

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From my 2009 paper with Weakliem: Throughout, we use the term statistically significant in the conventional way, to mean that an estimate is at least two standard errors away from some “null hypothesis” or prespecified value that would indicate no effect present. An estimate is statistically insignificant if the observed value could reasonably be explained […]

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10/28/2017, 14:26

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10/28/2017, 13:08