What is the difference between clinical significance and statistical significance?

Discussion

What is the difference between clinical significance and statistical significance? How might these concepts be applied to program evaluation? Give an example of an instance in which you might be torn between two types of significance in the reported results of research. What are some other types of statistical evaluations that help to sort out the true significance of clinical research findings? Provide at least two scholarly references for your discussion and justifications.

This discussion question meets the following CACREP Standards:

2.F.8.f. Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed research methods.

2.F.8.g. Designs used in research and program evaluation.