One should say that a result of this size or larger would be unlikely to
occur by chance or such a result would not be unlikely due to chance.
Paul R. Swank, Ph.D.
Professor, Developmental Pediatrics
Medical School
UT Health Science Center at Houston
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Subject: Avoiding statistically significant
While not a statistician so willing to accept that this isn't a good
way of doing it, I tend to talk about seeing a result that was
"unlikely to have occurred by chance"
Graham S
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