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A New Table of Odds Based on Student's Table of Probability 1
Author(s) -
Miles S. R.
Publication year - 1934
Publication title -
agronomy journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.752
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1435-0645
pISSN - 0002-1962
DOI - 10.2134/agronj1934.00021962002600040013x
Subject(s) - table (database) , odds , citation , table of contents , library science , agricultural experiment station , computer science , information retrieval , world wide web , mathematics , agriculture , database , statistics , history , archaeology , logistic regression
This is a plea for the use of the simplest and most easily understood methods of indicating the significance or reliability of the rev suits of a research. A new table of odds is given to help in attaining this objective. Measures of significance are used to indicate how much confidence can be placed in a result. The measure of significance used should be such that it can be easily understood even by persons who do not understand the basis nor the methods for calculating measures of significance. The result of an investigation is often given by the use of a statistical constant such as a mean (arithmetic average), a mean differ-