p value vs confidence interval

[aatishasad]

Hi,

I am doing some analysis and noticed that bootstrap outcome of a specific variable has p-value more than 0.05 but confidence internval doesnt corss zero. Should I consider this as statistically significant or not?

Any help would be great.

 

[Dason]

By "has p-value more than 0.05" do you mean the p-value is bigger than 0.05 (examples: 0.07, 0.12, 0.23)? If so I don't see any inconsistencies.

 

[aatishasad]

Yes p value is more than 0.05 which should be interpreted as not-significant. But confidence interval doesnt cross zero (which should be considered statistically significant). Hence the inconsistency. Right?

 

[Dason]

My bad - I misread that as it did cross 0. How is the confidence interval being generated?

 

[aatishasad]

My bad - I misread that as it did cross 0. How is the confidence interval being generated?

I am using PLS-SEM application and it generates bias corrected confidence interval, 2.5 to 97.5, as output of a bootstrap process.

 

[hlsmith]

Then how does it calc the p value? And you are using the 0.025 value for bootstrap.

Please also provide the actual values you are talking about.