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To: neverdem
Biology,chemistry,anatomy,and more(what you want my entire CV? LOL).......but nary a class just on statistics,which can and are made to "prove" whatever one wants.That's one of the first things said in stat classes,according to many who have taken them.
53 posted on 11/12/2004 11:26:53 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

With medical statistical studies they want a P value less than or equal to 0.05 which translates into English as that result would happen just by chance 1 out of 20 or more times with equivalent sampling methods. When they say something is statistically significant, that's the criteria.

With this sample of over 120,000, the trend had a P = 0.001 which means it would happen 1 out of 1000 times by chance. I'm not a gambler with those odds. Good Night


54 posted on 11/12/2004 11:51:47 PM PST by neverdem (Xin loi min oi)
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