significance

Can someone point me at a website that has a good explanation, in layman's terms, of why statistical significance is important in an experiment. I'd like to read up a bit on what makes a scientific result statistically significant, and what expressions of error mean (the term escapes me right...

I'm not a whiz at statistics, so my understanding of the meaning of standard deviation and "one-sigma confidence limits" is pretty poor. Can any math whiz explain to me in simple language what Steve McIntyre is trying to express in these two posts: MBH Confidence intervals and MBH Confidence...

In an inconsistent system, any statement can be proven. In particular, a statement that amounts to "the system is consistent" can be proven. So the existence of a consistency proof would not actually show that the system is consistent. It could be that we are facing a situation where the...