Reporting statistics in APA style
The anatomy of a reported result - statistic, degrees of freedom, value, p, effect size, confidence interval.
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What this module covers
the anatomy of a reported result - statistic, degrees of freedom, value, p, effect size, confidence interval; italics, spacing, decimal places and the leading-zero rule; reporting exact p values and when p < .001 is correct; the reporting sentence for every test in this curriculum, on a single cheat-sheet slide; describing the sample; reporting a non-significant result without apologising for it; what never to write, including "trend towards significance" and "the data proved".
By the end of it
- The anatomy of a reported result - statistic, degrees of freedom, value, p, effect size, confidence interval
- Italics, spacing, decimal places and the leading-zero rule
- Reporting exact p values and when p < .001 is correct
- The reporting sentence for every test in this curriculum, on a single cheat-sheet slide
- Describing the sample
- Reporting a non-significant result without apologising for it
- What never to write, including "trend towards significance" and "the data proved"
The dataset
Antenatal care and birth outcome — Sigma teaching dataset
A teaching dataset of 300 cases, generated from a fixed seed so every figure in the module reproduces exactly.
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