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Guidelines for presenting results of a statistical analysis in a research manuscript, presentation, or for general public.
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Reporting degrees of freedom for Welch t-test
As a general principle I would expect the treatment of significant digits in reporting the degrees of freedom (df) to be based on judgment related to significant figures. … Specifically, when reporting values $x$ and $y=f(x)$ when $x$ is given to the nearest multiple of a small value $h$ (such as $h=\frac{1}{2}\times 10^{-6}$ for six places after the decimal point), the relative …
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How many significant figures should I report for a regression equation?
In such a case you ought to consider reporting all results with at least three decimal places of precision (plus perhaps one or two more). … Moral: Use more precision in reporting statistics associated with large datasets. …
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Does rounding introduce variance into estimates?
It depends. But not on much, and you can predict what is likely to occur.
In many situations, rounding adds $1/12$ to the variance.
Consider any random variable $X$. Write $[X]$ for its rounded …