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  • What if a confidence interval ends at 1.0?

    Dear all users,

    I am working the analysis of multilevel logistic regression for association between maternal exposure to Any form of IPV and use of Health Facility Delivery and found the following results: (AOR = 0.60, (95% CI:0.36 - 1.00), p= 0.051).
    My question is that the confidence interval includes 1.00 then can I say the result is not statistically significant despite the P-value is significant at 95% CI; because it includes the null?
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    Last edited by SEMAN OSMAN; 31 May 2022, 03:45.

  • #2
    Well apparently the CI and the p-value are telling you the same since p is also larger than 5%, so the p-value in your example is not significant.
    Best wishes

    (Stata 16.1 MP)

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    • #3
      Seman:
      set aside any consideration about the usefulness of the p-value (
      https://www.amstat.org/asa/files/pdfs/p-valuestatement.pdf ;
      https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full...5.2016.1154108) your p-value exceeds 0.05 and this is consistent with the 95% CI including 1.
      Therefore, you can say that result is not statistically significant at 0.05 arbitrary threshold.
      Kind regards,
      Carlo
      (Stata 19.0)

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      • #4
        Dear users thank you so much for your professional responses.

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        • #5
          To avoid confusion you might note somewhere that the upper limit on the .95 CI is 1.002 (as some readers might wonder whether 1.00 is a number less than 1 rounded up or a number greater than 1 rounded down).

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