In both cases, better attention to the design and execution of the research may offer greater chances at detecting significant results. CONCLUSIONS Links of London important statistical inference issues are investigated in this paper the use of the significance tests and the statistical power. Specifically, we examine whether significance testing and low statistical power affect the conclusion drawn from statistical inference. The short answer to both questions is a "No." Based on our analysis of the top management support literature, the same conclusion can be reached whether significance testing or confidence intervals Links of London Rings used to draw statistical inference. Similarly, low statistical power per se does not affect the outcome of statistical inference. However, if significance tests are selected over confidence intervals, their limitations need to be properly addressed by the researcher. The important point is to report the effect size, whether the results are "significant" or not. A well known problem in metaanalysis is the socalled "filedrawer problem," whereby many nonsignificant findings stay buried in researchers' drawers for fear of being nonpublishable. It is worth repeating that a nontrivial effect size can be associated with a nonsignificant statistic. In Table , for instance, three nonsignificant statistics are reported in studies that have an effect size around . Adekoya, LeonardBarton, and Deschamps, Maish,which is not much smaller the mean effect size Links of London U Charm . If nonsignificant findings were the concern of the authors or the reviewers, these studies would not have been published and, as a result, three pieces of evidence of the effect sizes would have been lost. The morale is that researchers as well as journal reviewers and editors should stop paying attention to whether the results are significant or not. Another implication is that researchers should not be concerned with "inconsistent" results either. Given the inherent sampling error and statistical artifacts Hunter and Schmidt,it is predictable that effect sizes found in individual studies will vary widely. This is also obvious by examining the varying effect sizes shown in Table one. The research community should not dismiss or discount a study simply because it finds "inconsistent" results. As long as a study exhibits reasonable quality, its findings should be accepted as a piece of evidence that can help solve the puzzle. Inconsistent findings can always be resolved by the proper application of the knowledge synthesis tool, metaanalysis Hunter Links of London T Charm Schmidt. Foucault's works demonstrate how power creates knowledge and how knowledge creates power, and how 'the human' is both the object of knowledge and also subject to knowledge, in the human sciences.
When both the lower bound and the upper bound are positive, one can be pretty confident that the effect size is positive. Links of London confidence intervals that indicate a positive effect size are shaded, and they are from the same studies that have an effect size that is significant at the percent level. This is not surprising given the fact that the significance level of the significance test is related to the confidence coefficient in the confidence level. If the Type I error is set at percent, for example, the same conclusion should be reached using either the percent significance test or the percent confidence interval. The total error rate is still percent. Thus, forgoing significance tests and using confidence intervals instead does not improve the outcome of statistical inference. With a percent error rate, one has to be concerned with Links of London X Charm potential of low statistical power. Almost half of the studies do not meet the conventional standard of percent of power. The average power of all studies is , also below . These numbers seem to indicate that low statistical power could be the cause of some of the nonsignificant findings. However, out of the ten low power studies, only five of them have nonsignificant findings whereas the rest actually found significant results. The power values of these five studies are boldfaced in Table . Specifically, the low statistical power may have contributed to the nonsignificant findings reported by Bajwa , Ginzberg , LeonardBarton links of london sale Deschamps , Marsh , and Russo . However, low statistical power did not prevent significant findings being detected by Hogan , Robey , Sanders and Courtney , Schultz and Slevin , and Yoon, Guimaraes, and O'Neal . It should be noted that the absolute number of the statistical power is not the issue here the point is that low statistical power can be the reason for some but not all nonsignificant results. Implications for the statistical power in individual studies are discussed in more detail in the next section. DISCUSSION Significance testing has been the dominant choice for statistical inference in various disciplines for many years. Its use has come increasing attack in recent years. One major criticism is that the significance test result is often wrongly interpreted to mean significant relationship or effect size. This Links of London Rings a legitimate concern and researchers should report the effect size they found whether they used significance testing or not. Another concern with significance testing is that researchers often erroneously assume that the probability of making the wrong conclusion is fixed by the significance level they choose.
As can be seen in Figure , a and β are inversely related. An increase in one will cause a decrease in the other. Links of London researcher will need to make a tradeoff between the two types of errors by moving the decision line horizontally as they cannot both be minimized. Also apparent in Figure is that a simple way to increase the power of the statistical tests used is to relax a or the Type I error by moving the decision line to the left. Other ways that can be used to increase the statistical power are discussed later. DETERMINANTS OF STATISTICAL POWER It is apparent from the above discussion that the statistical power plays Links of London Rings important role in statistical hypothesis testing. After the publication of the seminal book on the subject by Cohen, there have been calls to increase the statistical power in individual studies in various disciplines including information systems Baroudi and Orlikowski, Dyba, Kampenes, and Sjoberg, Rademacher. According to Cohen, the power of a statistical test depends on three parameters the significance level chosen, the effect size, and the reliability of the sample results. The significance level is the type I error and is typically set at the percent level. The effect size measures the phenomenon under study, which is usually unknown but can be estimated from theory or from prior studies. The reliability of the sample results refers to how close a sample statistic is to the relevant population parameter. Links of London Star of David Charm reliability can be affected by many factors including the reliability of measurement, construct validity, and sample size. Among these determinants, sample size is almost always available and forms the basis of the power analysis popularized by Cohen. All subsequent statistical power analysis studies similarly use sample size, along with the significance level and the effect size, to determine the power levels of individual studies. In information systems, for instance, Baroudi and Orlikowski reported that statistical power is typically low in information systems studies. A decade later, Rademacher found that statistical power has improved in information systems studies published in a top journal, the MIS Quarterly. Does this mean that the statistical power is no longer an issue in information systems research? We answer this question and the broader statistical inference issue by analyzing the top management support literature in the next section. TOP MANAGEMENT SUPPORT Links of London Z Charm SYSTEMS SUCCESS Top management support has long been recognized as a critical factor to the successful implementation of information systems e.g. Garrity. Empirical studies of various systems have generally supported this hypothesis Ifinedo, Rangananathan, WatsonManheim, and Keeler,Young and Jordan.
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