Evaluating Statistical Difference, Equivalence, and Indeterminancy Using Inferential Confidence Intervals: An Integrated Alternative Method of Conducting Null Hypothesis statistical tests
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Psychology | Social and Behavioral Sciences
Abstract
Null hypothesis statistical testing (NHST) has been debated extensively but always successfully defended. The technical merits of NHST are not disputed in this article. The widespread misuse of NHST has created a human factors problem that this article intends to ameliorate. This article describes an integrated, alternative inferential confidence interval approach to testing for statistical difference, equivalence, and indeterminacy that is algebraically equivalent to standard NHST procedures and therefore exacts the same evidential standard. The combined numeric and graphic tests of statistical difference, equivalence, and indeterminacy are designed to avoid common interpretive problems associated with NHST procedures. Multiple comparisons, power, sample size, test reliability, effect size, and cause-effect ratio are discussed. A section on the proper interpretation of confidence intervals is followed by a decision rule summary and caveats.
Article Number
1077
Publication Date
2001
Peer Reviewed
1
Recommended Citation
Tryon, Warren W., "Evaluating Statistical Difference, Equivalence, and Indeterminancy Using Inferential Confidence Intervals: An Integrated Alternative Method of Conducting Null Hypothesis statistical tests" (2001). Psychology Faculty Publications. 81.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/psych_facultypubs/81
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APA Citation: Tryon, W. W. (2001). Evaluating statistical difference, equivalence, and indeterminancy using inferential confidence intervals: An integrated alternative method of conducting null hypothesis statistical tests. Psychological Methods, 6(4), 371-386.