title: Significant results: statistical or clinical?
abstract: The null hypothesis significance test method is popular in biological and medical research. Many researchers have used this method for their research without exact knowledge, though it has both merits and shortcomings. Readers will know its shortcomings, as well as several complementary or alternative methods, as such the estimated effect size and the confidence interval.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Chungnam National University Hospital, Daejeon, Korea.
authors.forename: Sangil
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-2026-6848
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Park
keywords: Biostatistics; Confidence intervals; Statistical models