Beyond 'significance': principles and practice of the Analysis of Credibility.

R Soc Open Sci · 2018 · PMC5792895 · PMID 29410818

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closest p

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boldest claim

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approaching significanceno p-value reported

fairly significantno p-value reported

The implications of AnCred are also striking when applied to the outcome of trials S3 and L3, whose p -values are in the range 0.05 < p < 0.10, leading to euphemistic descriptions such as ‘fairly significant’, ‘approaching significance’ etc.

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