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Chan-Seung Lee
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 Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 7:06 am Post subject: statistically significant |
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| The rise in temperature is not statistically significant. |
What does it mean?
Espesially I'd like to know the meaning of 'statistically significant'.
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buddhaheart
Joined: 13 Jan 2007
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Location: Vancouver, BC Canada
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| Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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| According to statistics (or statistically speaking), the rise in temperature in not important or of any consequence. |
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asterix
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| Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Statistical significance is a technical term related to the measurement of sampling error.Usually, researchers are attempting to accept, or reject a null hypothesis. Tests of significance generally require probabilities that the "effect" measured is extremely unlikely to have occurred as a result of a sample (perhaps from a survey) differing by chance from the entire population that it is expected to represent. It does not address non-sampling error -- including many things like poorly designed questions, not identifying the relevant population to be polled, interviewer bias, etc. |
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