An Illustration of Errors in Using the P Value to Indicate Clinical Significance or Epidemiological Importance of a Study Finding

Kang, Joseph; Hong, Jaeyoung; Esie, Precious; Bernstein, Kyle T.; Aral, Sevgi

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An Illustration of Errors in Using the P Value to Indicate Clinical Significance or Epidemiological Importance of a Study Finding

Published Date:

Aug 2017

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Sex Transm Dis. 44(8):495-497.

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Kang, Joseph ; Hong, Jaeyoung ; Esie, Precious ; Bernstein, Kyle T. ; Aral, Sevgi ;

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28703730

Pubmed Central ID:

PMC5761065

Description:

We conducted a simulation study to illustrate that P values can suggest but not confirm statistical significance; and they may not indicate epidemiological significance (importance). We recommend that researchers consider reporting effect sizes as P values in conjunction with confidence intervals or point estimates with standard errors to indicate precision (uncertainty).

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