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Moving college health research forward: Reconsidering our reliance on statistical significance testing.

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  • معلومة اضافية
    • المصدر:
      Publisher: Routledge Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 8214119 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1940-3208 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 07448481 NLM ISO Abbreviation: J Am Coll Health Subsets: MEDLINE
    • بيانات النشر:
      Publication: 2010- : New York : Routledge
      Original Publication: [Washington, D.C. : Published by the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, in cooperation with the American College Health Association, c1982-
    • الموضوع:
      Data Interpretation, Statistical*; Biomedical Research/*standards ; Biomedical Research/*statistics & numerical data ; Student Health Services/*standards ; Student Health Services/*statistics & numerical data ; Students/*statistics & numerical data ; Universities/*statistics & numerical data; Adult ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Research Design ; United States ; Young Adult
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      Understanding the unique health needs of college students and establishing best practices to address them depend, heavily, on the inherent quality and contribution of the research identifying these needs. College health-focused publications currently exemplify less than ideal statistical reporting practices. Specifically, college health practitioners and researchers continue to rely heavily upon null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) as the sole standard for effectiveness, validity, and/or replicability of scientific studies, even though NHST itself was not designed for such purposes. Herein we address the following questions: (a) What is NHST? (b) What are the inherent limitations of NHST? (c) What are recommended alternatives to NHST? and (d) How can editorial policies promote adopting NHST alternatives? Using college health data from the CORE 2011 Alcohol and Drug survey, we provide a heuristic example demonstrating how effect sizes do not suffer from the same limitations as NHST.
    • Contributed Indexing:
      Keywords: College health; effect size; null hypothesis significance testing; significance testing
    • الموضوع:
      Date Created: 20180629 Date Completed: 20200609 Latest Revision: 20200609
    • الموضوع:
      20240829
    • الرقم المعرف:
      10.1080/07448481.2018.1470091
    • الرقم المعرف:
      29952723