Significance Levels of Inferential Statistics and Their Interpretation: A Lesson from Feeding Deterrent Experiments
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Annals of the Entomological Society of America
- Vol. 80 (1) , 9-11
- https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/80.1.9
Abstract
Problems of statistical significance levels in biological decision-making are discussed with reference to a long series of experiments using a single antifeedant and one insect species. It is demonstrated that variables can be underestimated and that experiments need repetition even when significance levels in one experiment indicate clear acceptance or rejection of a hypothesis.Keywords
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