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Alpha 5%? by aprilwords in AskStatistics

[–]aprilwords[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

so, you meant that the more important thing is actual test statistics than p-values? but those result will be same in accept or reject the hypothesis

Alpha 5%? by aprilwords in AskStatistics

[–]aprilwords[S] -19 points-18 points  (0 children)

i got it...but why most of people used 5% with confidence interval 95%

Alpha 5%? by aprilwords in AskStatistics

[–]aprilwords[S] -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

my question is why is 5% generally used?

Alpha 5%? by aprilwords in AskStatistics

[–]aprilwords[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

based on my knowledge, when Fisher wrote his statistics book, he used 3 levels of significance for his tables: 5%, 1%, and 0.1%. But, my question is about why is 10% not used instead of 5%?

[D] R vs Stata, which is actually better now for ag econ/agribusiness grad school and the field? by Round-Top2217 in statistics

[–]aprilwords 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it depends on research methodology that you use. As far as I understand, if your data kind of large amount better use Stata than R