Re: st: From: Abekah Nkrumah <ankrumah@gmail.com>

[Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com>]

Siginificant means that the deviations from the null hypothesis you
find is unlikely to be the result of the randomness due to sampling.
So if you have a large enough sample almost everything you find will
be "significant", but that does not tell you much. That is just a
limitation of statistical testing.

-- Maarten


On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 3:16 PM,  <owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> wrote:
> I have estimated OLS and Probit models using pooled cross-country
> datasets. Due to the pooling of data from multiple countries I have a
> very large obervations (N). I am wondering if there is any additional
> test I may have to run to ensure that my estimates are not merely
> significant because of the large N
>
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