It did not provide explicit statistical hypotheses (null hypotheses and alternative hypotheses); nor were there justifications for the proposed statistical approaches or statistical assumptions underlying them.
Many papers offered additional sophisticated statistical analysis, although there was no consistency in the approach used or statistical tests.
With a larger sample size and reduced error margins, differences which were not statistically significant may have approached or reached statistical significance.
In one phase III study in patients with intraabdominal infections, the increases in rates of nausea and vomiting with tigecycline over imipenem/cilastatin approached or attained statistical significance (Table 7), but there were no statistically significant differences between groups in this respect in the other phase III intraabdominal infection trial (Fomin et al. 2005).
The Statistical Tree of Life (STOL) and phylogenetic supertrees are constructed from a much larger sample of genomes and attempt to either construct a single tree (supertree approaches) or a statistical trend that is tree-like from a large sample of a genome.
No adjusted ORs approached statistical significance, and few point estimates exceeded 1.0, whether consumption was defined in terms of ever, current, level (drinks/week), or beverage type.
With regard to drinking, no adjusted ORs approached statistical significance, and few point estimates exceeded 1.0, whether consumption was defined in terms of ever, current, level (drinks/week), or beverage type.
Sometimes the mechanistic approach is the more useful; other times it's the thermodynamic, or statistical, approach.
Usually, coarse-graining or statistical approaches, which are averaging approaches, are used.
This trend holds for the population- and species-levels irrespective of method or statistical approach used.
