Re: futility analysis

Posted by David Marso on Jul 14, 2016; 8:32pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/futility-analysis-tp5732731p5732738.html

Or if you are into poetry you can go here to learn about Wilfred Owen's poem titled Futility.
http://www.markedbyteachers.com/gcse/english/analysis-of-futility-by-wilfred-owen.html
I'm sure there are many commentaries written about Dante's Inferno too.  Now that is FUTILITY...
But as Mike stated.  This really has nothing to do with SPSS.  Time for OP to go off and read some journal articles.

Bruce Weaver wrote

And perhaps not surprisingly, if you do a Google search on <futility of utility analysis>, you'll find a bunch more articles!  ;-)

Mike wrote

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(3)  For a debate on the utility of futility analysis, see the
following:
http://ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/cc3013
A search of scholar.google.com and/or books.google.com will
turn up numerous sources for the rationale, philosophy, and
procedures (e.g., one-tailed test favored over two-tailed) that
are typically used.