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### Regarding p-values, why 1% and 5%? Why not 6% or 10%?

Regarding p-values, I am wondering why $1$% and $5$% seem to be the gold standard for "statistical significance". Why not other values, like $6$% or $10$%? Is ...
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Recently, I have found in a paper by Klammer, et al. a statement that p-values should be uniformly distributed. I believe the authors, but cannot understand why it is so. Klammer, A. A., Park, C. Y.,...
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### How should tiny $p$-values be reported? (and why does R put a minimum on 2.22e-16?)

For some tests in R, there is a lower limit on the p-value calculations of $2.22 \cdot 10^{-16}$. I'm not sure why it's this number, if there is a good reason for ...
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### When to use Fisher and Neyman-Pearson framework?

I've been reading a lot lately about the differences between Fisher's method of hypothesis testing and the Neyman-Pearson school of thought. My question is, ignoring philosophical objections for a ...
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### Are smaller p-values more convincing?

I've been reading up on $p$-values, type 1 error rates, significance levels, power calculations, effect sizes and the Fisher vs Neyman-Pearson debate. This has left me feeling a bit overwhelmed. I ...
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### Accommodating entrenched views of p-values

Sometimes in reports I include a disclaimer about the p-values and other inferential statistics I've provided. I say that since the sample wasn't random, then such statistics would not strictly apply....
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### What is an F test?

What is an F test and what does it show? Also what is an alpha, and how do I evaluate the p-value?
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### Interpret F-Value in ANOVA [duplicate]

When we conduct an ANOVA, we get F-Value and P-Value. If P-value if smaller than our alpha level of .05 for example, we reject our null hypothesis. What is the importance of F-Value that is obtained ...
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### Likert item as independent variable for ANOVA?

I am trying to analyze data based on a sample size of around 50 and would appreciate advice on which statistical test would be most appropriate. Participants, on a single questionnaire, were asked to ...
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### Finding the level of significance of a sample

I have an exercise with the following information; $20\%$ of the set are youth, my sample of $139$ persons have $39$ youths. The exercise is to test if this sample is a representative sample of ...
My attempt at making sense of the problem: The problem provides us with the sum of squares (SS; I believe that's the $18.1$). We can use the SS along with the number of samples $(21)$ to get the ...