Is 0.013 less than 0.05 making it significant.

Answer 1

Hi Pam, yes that is significant. But there has been some criticisms lately, at least in the natural sciences, on how much information p-values can really provide. Some other useful things to look at to increase the confidence of your analysis could include the 95% confidence intervals on the effect size or the F-statistic/t-statistic.

Feel free to message me if you'd like some more information!

Best,

Nicholas

Answer 2

Yes, at the 0.05 level of significance, a p-value of 0.013 would be significant.

The alpha value is the probability of making a Type I error (false positive). So a test at the 95% level of confidence will accept an alpha of 5% or lesser.

In this case, your value of 0.013 implies a 1.3% chance of a false positive, which is below our 5% threshold. Therefore, your results are significant.