Clinical significance
What it is
Clinical significance concerns whether an effect matters for health, function, or decisions in practice.
What it does
An effect's size and practical importance must be considered separately from its p-value.
Research context and ingredient forms
A very small effect can be statistically significant without being useful to patients.
Using this information
Ask what changed in terms people experience and whether benefits, harms, burden, and uncertainty support a meaningful conclusion.
Scientific Research & References
- The ASA Statement on p-Values: Context, Process, and Purpose
Ronald L. Wasserstein, Nicole A. Lazar
2016 · American Statistical Association / The American Statistician · professional statistical-methods statement
Limitations: Supports the bounded definition or statement mapped to it. This source alone does not establish a food- or product-specific clinical benefit.
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- American Statistical Association Releases Statement on Statistical Significance and P-Values
2016 · American Statistical Association
Limitations: Official summary of the statement; supplements the original journal article rather than replacing it. Direct command-line download returned 403 in this environment.
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