Editorial announcement: Reporting of statistics

Bioiogiul

Psychology

19 (1984) 77

North-Holland

EDITORIAL

ANNOUNCEMENT:

In order

to achieve

reporting

statistics.

some First,

REPORTING

standardization, some authors

OF STATISTICS

two procedures may wish to report

are available

for

p values as has

been the custom, whereas others may wish to state a rejection region at the beginning of the Results section and omit p values thereafter. If this procedure is adopted, however, mean square error (MSe) values should also be stated. If the first procedure is adopted, the textual mode of reporting an F-ratio, for example, is: (F(1, 36) = 5.97, p -C 0.05) and if the second procedure is adopted, it is: (F(1, 36) = 5.97, MSe = 0.04). In both cases, but particularly in the first, indices of varibility should be included elsewhere in the text, tables or figures.

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