Statistical Significance

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(2017-10-09, 06:00 PM)Arouet Wrote: Not really.

No. Clearly those equations don't back up what fls said on the other thread - that "smaller effects increase the likelihood that that positive results are false-positives, even in the setting of very low p-values". If you keep the p value the same and reduce the effect size, then the false-positive probability can either go up, or go down, or stay the same. It depends on the power. If the power is the same, the false-positive probability is the same.

Nor, in my view, do they back up what fls said on this thread about the importance of the power and the unimportance of the p value. Clearly, they both play a role.

Anyway, the virtue of simple equations like those is that they are quite simple to interpret. They are far more efficient than verbal descriptions in a situation like this.
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Statistical Significance - by Will - 2017-08-16, 04:02 AM
RE: Statistical Significance - by diverdown - 2017-08-16, 12:17 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Chris - 2017-08-16, 03:48 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Kamarling - 2017-08-16, 09:59 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Chris - 2017-08-16, 10:24 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by malf - 2017-08-16, 11:08 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Chris - 2017-08-17, 08:04 AM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Laird - 2017-08-17, 10:13 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Chris - 2017-08-17, 10:25 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Laird - 2017-08-17, 11:08 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Kamarling - 2017-08-16, 10:33 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Chris - 2017-08-16, 10:42 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Kamarling - 2017-08-16, 10:59 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Chris - 2017-08-16, 11:14 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Kamarling - 2017-08-16, 11:30 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Kamarling - 2017-08-16, 11:33 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by malf - 2017-08-18, 04:17 AM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Laird - 2017-08-18, 04:44 AM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Chris - 2017-08-18, 08:10 AM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Chris - 2017-08-18, 08:39 AM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Will - 2017-08-22, 05:51 AM
RE: Statistical Significance - by fls - 2017-10-06, 04:13 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by jkmac - 2017-10-06, 05:28 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by fls - 2017-10-06, 06:45 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by jkmac - 2017-10-07, 12:56 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by fls - 2017-10-07, 01:54 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by jkmac - 2017-10-07, 02:31 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by fls - 2017-10-07, 03:06 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by jkmac - 2017-10-07, 03:11 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Steve001 - 2017-10-06, 10:50 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by jkmac - 2017-10-07, 01:15 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Steve001 - 2017-10-07, 02:42 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by jkmac - 2017-10-07, 02:53 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Steve001 - 2017-10-07, 04:20 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Steve001 - 2017-10-06, 11:37 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Chris - 2017-10-06, 11:54 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Laird - 2017-10-07, 02:17 AM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Chris - 2017-10-07, 03:43 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Chris - 2017-10-07, 04:33 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Chris - 2017-10-07, 05:31 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Chris - 2017-10-07, 06:00 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Laird - 2017-10-09, 04:28 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by fls - 2017-10-09, 05:20 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Arouet - 2017-10-09, 05:33 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Chris - 2017-10-09, 05:47 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Arouet - 2017-10-09, 06:00 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Chris - 2017-10-09, 06:14 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Beasty - 2019-08-09, 10:48 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Chris - 2019-08-09, 11:21 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Beasty - 2019-08-09, 11:33 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Chris - 2019-08-10, 12:14 AM
RE: Statistical Significance - by fls - 2017-10-09, 08:01 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by fls - 2017-10-09, 08:06 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Chris - 2017-10-09, 08:10 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by fls - 2017-10-09, 09:25 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Chris - 2017-10-09, 09:38 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by fls - 2017-10-09, 10:35 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Chris - 2017-10-09, 11:26 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by fls - 2017-10-10, 01:20 AM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Chris - 2017-10-10, 07:52 AM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Kamarling - 2017-10-10, 09:38 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Chris - 2017-10-10, 10:00 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Laird - 2017-10-13, 03:13 AM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Chris - 2018-03-02, 03:12 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Chris - 2018-03-03, 05:36 PM
RE: Statistical Significance - by Chris - 2019-03-31, 08:17 AM

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