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statistical significance

Towards a “post p < 0.05 era” by Tamara Young

I’m Tamara Young and I am an associate professor in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis at North Carolina State University.  I teach evaluation theory and practice in education. Today, I’m going to discuss the American Statistical Association’s (ASA) Statement on p-values, which responds to the decades old highly contentious debate about null hypothesis statistical significance testing (NHSST). Implications of …

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Steve Fleming on Explaining Statistical Significance

My name is Steve Fleming, and I work for the National Center for Educational Achievement, a department of ACT, Inc. whose mission is to help people achieve education and workplace success. I also earned an M.S. in Statistics from the University of Texas at Austin. I have been thinking a lot lately about how to explain …

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