Confidence intervals overlap but still have signif.

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Confidence intervals overlap but still have signif.

msherman
Dear List:  I just did an ANCOVA and got significance for my IV with a p
values of .024. I then looked at the estimated means and the 95% CI for
the mean and got the following results. My question is why do the
confidence intervals overlap when the overall analysis indicates that
the adjusted means are significantly different? Thanks,   martin
sherman

         est mean    S.E. Mean   Lower Bound    Upper Bound
.00     10.539(a)    1.312             7.898      13.179
1.00    6.235(a)           1.261              3.697
8.774
a
Covariates appearing in the model are evaluated at the following
values: season1 = .33, season2 = .10, sumpats = 380.98, vaccres
%resvaccine = 92.12.