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flag significant correlations


From: Matej Kovacic
Subject: flag significant correlations
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:04:30 +0200
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Hi,

> One of the joys of studying a correlation matrix in SPSS is viewing
> the asterisks.  One asterisk means less than 5% chance of Type I error
> and two asterisks means less than 1% chance of the same.  "Seeing
> stars" is a good thing, even if overly-large sample sizes promote Type
> II error.
Actually, I see. PSPP indeed flac significant correlations correctly
(i.e. in italic fonts), but I expected it would flag them with
asterisks. That's why I said it does not flag it at all.

However - I prefer asterisks.

Regards,

Matej





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