Making the most of statistical analyses: Improving interpretation and presentation
Making the most of statistical analyses: Improving interpretation and presentation
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DOI：
10.2307/2669316
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发表时间：
2000-04-01
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Wittenberg, J
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作者：
King, G;Tomz, M;Wittenberg, J
社会科学家很少充分利用统计结果中的信息。因此，他们错过了机会，提出的数量，如果他们的研究是最大的实质性利益，并表示适当程度的确定性，这些数量。在本文中，我们提供了一种基于统计模拟技术的方法，可以从任何统计方法中提取当前被忽视的信息，并以读者友好的方式解释和呈现。使用这种技术需要一些专业知识，我们试图在这里提供，但它的应用应该使定量文章的结果更加翔实和透明。为了说明我们的建议，我们复制了几个已发表的作品的结果，在每种情况下，作者自己的结论如何可以更清晰和更有信息量地表达，并且在不改变任何数据统计假设的情况下，我们的方法如何揭示有关手头研究问题的重要新信息。我们还提供非常易于使用的软件来实现我们的建议。
Social scientists rarely take full advantage of the information available in their statistical results. As a consequence, they miss opportunities to present quantities that are if greatest substantive interest for their research and express the appropriate degree of certainty about these quantities. In this article, we offer an approach, built on the technique of statistical simulation, to extract the currently overlooked information from any statistical method and to interpret and present it in a reader-friendly manner. Using this technique requires some expertise, which we try to provide herein, but its application should make the results of quantitive articles more informative and transparent. To illustrate our recommendations, we replicate the results of several published works, showing in each case how the authors' own conclusions can be expressed more sharply and informatively, and, without changing any data statistical assumptions, how our approach revels important new information about the research questions at hand. We also offer very easy-to-use software that implements our suggests.