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Re: st: question about the interaction term
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Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: question about the interaction term
Date
Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:34:08 +0200
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 5:27 PM, ZHVictor wrote:
> You mentioned "but make sure that noone interprets the result that one effect is significant and the other is insifinicant as "the effect of A in group B=1 is different from the effect of A in group B=0"."
> So how should I interpret? Because the interaction term is insignificant, I should say A has the same effect in B=0 vs B=1?
Close, but not quite; you should say that you cannot reject the
hypothesis that the effects are the same. Remember, with statistical
tests you can never confirm a hypothesis, you can only reject or fail
to reject. The latter is not the same as accepting. In essence failing
to reject means that there is "absence of evidence" and this is not
the same as "evidence of absence".
-- Maarten
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