Definition of Significance

Watch the Pee Wee’s Big Adventure – Basement meeting video, paying particular attention to the way Pee-wee Herman uses the term “significance” around the middle of the video.

As statistical engineers, we are often in situations where some of the concepts and terminology we use can mean different things when those concepts and terms are used by non-engineers who aren’t thinking about statistics. It’s critical that we keep these differences in mind when communicating our engineering or receiving communications or advice from others. Write and submit an essay that compares and contrasts what Pee-wee is indicating about significance and the ways in which significance has played a role in Hypothesis Testing, ANOVA, and Regression analysis in the past few units.

To earn credit with this assignment, the submitted essay must be well-written, original, cleanly presented, and offer a complete discussion of the topic. It should be engagingly written at a serious junior undergraduate academic level.