determining significance

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determining significance

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How do I determine the level of significance (p <0.05) in my model? Looking through the output of my data, I see t values, but how do I know the level of significance?
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Hi,

you determine the significance by comparing the t-values to the quantiles of a t-distribution or a standard normal distribution, respectively (that is looking them up in the corresponding tables which can be found in every undergraduate statistics book or easily on the internet (e.g. wikipedia)).

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You can also use TDIST function in excel, with df (degree of freedome as 999 being n-1), and for a 2-tailed test

TDIST (t-value, 999, 2)
jarhead01e wrote:How do I determine the level of significance (p <0.05) in my model? Looking through the output of my data, I see t values, but how do I know the level of significance?
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Post by jarhead01e »

Oh... okay.. so the program doesn't do it for me.. I have to look up the t values on the students t test chart. Got it... Thanks for the replies.
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