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pwr22 | 1 year ago

and that means?

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jampekka|1 year ago

That there's a probability of 4.20e-05 that the observed difference of that large would happen by chance due to observation noise if there would be no real difference (given your assumptions about the data generating process holds).

tstenner|1 year ago

The normality assumption is a large stretch, especially since there an absolute lower limit near the observation and a somewhat discrete distribution, so a t-test isn't appropriate. But then again it looks significant, so there's no real need for a test

pjdesno|1 year ago

In a lot of fields, p=0.05 is good enough to publish. p=0.0001 means it's really f*ing unlikely that the difference in means is due to random chance.

lmm|1 year ago

Evidence more than strong enough to be published in most fields. Not quite strong enough to qualify as "discovery" in high-energy physics.

kelseyfrog|1 year ago

Depends on your alpha ;) . But it's significant.

viraptor|1 year ago

That really does not answer the question.