The Potential Effect of Lowering the Threshold of Statistical Significance From P < .05 to P < .005 in Orthopaedic Sports Medicine.
Evans S, Anderson JM, Johnson AL, Checketts JX, Scott J, Middlemist K, Fishbeck K, Vassar M.
Evans S, et al.
Arthroscopy. 2021 Apr;37(4):1068-1074. doi: 10.1016/j.arthro.2020.11.041. Epub 2020 Nov 27.
Arthroscopy. 2021.
PMID: 33253798
PURPOSE: To determine how changing the P value threshold of statistical significance from .05 to .005 could affect the statistical significance of findings in previously published orthopaedic sports medicine randomized controlled trials (RCTs). METHODS: The authors searche …
PURPOSE: To determine how changing the P value threshold of statistical significance from .05 to .005 could affect the statistical significa …