Week Four Post: Chapter 11

In this post, I wanted to discuss a section in chapter 11 on tests of statistical significance. A test of statistical significance is based on sampling logic and provides the best single estimate of a specific phenomena. There are parts of these tests which include statistical significance and level of significance. Statistical significance of a relationship observed in a set of sample data and is expressed in terms of probabilities. Level of significance is derived from a logical model in which severl samples drawn from a given population.