Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7515989 | International Journal of Nursing Studies | 2014 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
The use, reporting, and interpretation of inferential statistics in nursing research need substantial improvement. Most importantly, researchers should abandon the misleading practice of interpreting the results from inferential tests based solely on whether they are statistically significant (or not) and, instead, focus on reporting and interpreting effect sizes, confidence intervals, and significance levels. Nursing researchers also need to conduct and report a priori power analyses, and to address the issue of Type I experiment-wise error inflation in their studies.
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Authors
Cadeyrn J. Gaskin, Brenda Happell,