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The Vital Study (http://www.vitalstudy.org) will find that fish oil significantly reduces mortality.

Created by ChristianKl on 2013-01-07; known on 2017-12-31

  • ChristianKl estimated 65% on 2013-01-07
  • Tuxedage estimated 20% on 2013-01-07
  • Tuxedage said “Can we define “significant”?on 2013-01-07
  • ChristianKl said “The standard definition for statistical significance. p<0.05on 2013-01-07
  • simplicio said “Statistical significance would show that there is probably a real effect, not that the effect was substantial (“significant”).How big a drop in mortality will count? In what units?on 2013-01-07
  • gwern said “perhaps Christian is happy with a confidence interval on the mortality odds ratio which excludes <=1.0.on 2013-01-07
  • themusicgod1 estimated 50% on 2016-10-10