Making the Most Of Statistical Analyses: Improving Interpretation and Presentation
@article{King2000MakingTM, title={Making the Most Of Statistical Analyses: Improving Interpretation and Presentation}, author={Gary King and Michael Tomz and Jason. Wittenberg}, journal={PSN: Computational Models (Games) (Topic)}, year={2000} }
Social Scientists rarely take full advantage of the information available in their statistical results. As a consequence, they miss opportunities to present quantities that are of greatest substantive interest for their research and express the appropriate degree of certainty about these quantities. In this article, we offer an approach, built on the technique of statistical simulation, to extract the currently overlooked information from any statistical method and to interpret and present it…
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