Promoting Good Statistical Practices: Some Suggestions

Makes the case that science is best served when researchers focus on the size of effects and their practical significance. Advocates the use of confidence intervals for deciding whether chance or sampling variability is an unlikely explanation for an observed effect. Calls for more emphasis on effec...

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Published inEducational and psychological measurement Vol. 61; no. 2; pp. 213 - 218
Main Author Kirk, Roger E.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Thousand Oaks, CA SAGE Publications 01.04.2001
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
American Psychological Association
Association (Psychology)
Beliefs
Computers
Confidence Intervals (Statistics)
Effect Size
Experimental Psychology
Graduate Study
Hypothesis Testing
Intervals
Measurement Techniques
Null Hypothesis
Periodicals
Psychology
Regression (Statistics)
Research Reports
Researchers
Resistance (Psychology)
Sampling
Scholarly Journals
Scientific Research
Social research
Statistical Analysis
Statistical Inference
Statistical Significance
Statistics
Values
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Summary:Makes the case that science is best served when researchers focus on the size of effects and their practical significance. Advocates the use of confidence intervals for deciding whether chance or sampling variability is an unlikely explanation for an observed effect. Calls for more emphasis on effect sizes in the next edition of the American Psychological Association publication manual. (SLD)
ISSN:0013-1644
1552-3888
DOI:10.1177/00131640121971185