Statistical significance: How it signifies in statistics reference

Reference and User Services Quarterly

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 361-374

  Gerhan, David ^a  

^a UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

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1. David R. Gerhan, "When Quantitative Analysis Lies behind a Reference Question," Reference & User Services Quarterly 39 (Winter 1999): 166-76.
2. One of the two most widely used statistical software packages for the social sciences was used for the examples in this article: SPSS for Windows version 10.0. The other software in common use is SAS: Statistical Analysis System. Lotus 1-2-3 and Excel also offer significant-difference testing routines, though they are somewhat simplified.
3. Gerhan, "When Quantitative Analysis Lies behind a Reference Question": 169-72.
4. Keith McNeil, Isadore Newman, and Francis J. Kelly, Testing Research Hypotheses with the General Linear Model (Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Pr., 1996), 4.
5. Most dictionaries devoted to the social sciences or to statistics itself offer definitions of "statistical significance"; for example: Raymond J. Corsini, Dictionary of Psychology (Philadelphia: Brunner/Mazel, 1999), 901; Edgar F. Borgatta and Marie L. Borgatta, eds., Encyclopedia of Sociology, vol. 4 (New York: Macmillan, 1992), 2,073-83; or Samuel Kotz and Norman L. Johnson, eds., Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, vol. 8 (New York: Wiley, 1988), 466-71.
6. Most dictionaries devoted to the social sciences or to statistics itself offer definitions of "statistical significance"; for example: Raymond J. Corsini, Dictionary of Psychology (Philadelphia: Brunner/Mazel, 1999), 901; Edgar F. Borgatta and Marie L. Borgatta, eds., Encyclopedia of Sociology, vol. 4 (New York: Macmillan, 1992), 2,073-83; or Samuel Kotz and Norman L. Johnson, eds., Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, vol. 8 (New York: Wiley, 1988), 466-71.
7. Most dictionaries devoted to the social sciences or to statistics itself offer definitions of "statistical significance"; for example: Raymond J. Corsini, Dictionary of Psychology (Philadelphia: Brunner/Mazel, 1999), 901; Edgar F. Borgatta and Marie L. Borgatta, eds., Encyclopedia of Sociology, vol. 4 (New York: Macmillan, 1992), 2,073-83; or Samuel Kotz and Norman L. Johnson, eds., Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, vol. 8 (New York: Wiley, 1988), 466-71.
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12. Ibid., 198.
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17. Ibid.
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19. Ibid., 72.
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21. Ibid., 239.
22. Ibid., 241-42.
23. Ibid., 227.
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29. McNeil, Newman, and Kelly, Testing Research Hypotheses with the General Linear Model, 24.
30. Sirkin, Statistics for the Social Sciences, 309.
31. McNeil, Newman, and Kelly, Testing Research Hypotheses with the General Linear Model, 77.
32. Ibid., 78.
33. Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, act 4, scene 4, lines 539-41.