The P Value Problem in Otolaryngology: Shifting to Effect Sizes and Confidence Intervals
| Autor: | J. Gail Neely, Peter M. Vila, W. Katherine Kao, Neel K. Bhatt, Melanie Townsend, Parul Sinha |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Article Otolaryngology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Statistics Confidence Intervals Range (statistics) medicine Estimation statistics Humans Clinical significance 030212 general & internal medicine p-value 030223 otorhinolaryngology Probability business.industry Population mean Reproducibility of Results Confidence interval Otorhinolaryngology Research Design Data Interpretation Statistical Surgery business |
| Zdroj: | Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg |
| ISSN: | 1097-6817 0194-5998 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0194599816677735 |
| Popis: | There is a lack of reporting of effect sizes and confidence intervals in the current biomedical literature. The objective of this paper is to present a discussion of the recent paradigm shift encouraging the use of reporting effect sizes and confidence intervals. Although p-values help to inform us about whether or not an effect exists due to chance, effect sizes inform us about the magnitude of the effect (clinical significance), and confidence intervals inform us about the range of plausible estimates for the general population mean (precision). Reporting of effect sizes and confidence intervals are a necessary addition to the biomedical literature, and these concepts are reviewed in this manuscript. |
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