Commentary Open Access
Volume 4 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.46439/aging.4.017
Can a study that’s not statistically significant be meaningful?
Raymond L Ownby1,*
- 1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Nova Southeastern University, Florida, USA
Corresponding Author
Raymond L Ownby, ro71@nova.edu
Received Date: May 30, 2024
Accepted Date: August 07, 2024
Ownby RL. Can a study that’s not statistically significant be meaningful?. Am J Aging Sci Res. 2024;4(1):1-4.
Copyright: © 2024 Ownby RL. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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