Replies to post #201865 on Anavex Life Sciences Corp (AVXL)

[dranesthesia1]

You do realize this weakens the position of 2-73 considerably in that it makes it more likely a vaccination will probe effective

[OFP]

They are correlations for sure. However I don't understand your comment about low/useless p values.

They show p <.01 and p<.04 (slide 15) Those are not overwhelming numbers but they meet the usual standards for significance.

p values are only useful if the statistic is applied correctly...even then they are prone to misinterpretation

If you want to do a statistical analysis to see if something is significantly correlated you might not want to take the output of a robust method of identifying correlations (KEM analysis). You can be pretty sure they are significantly correlated. If you want to adjust the statistic for multiple measures it can be done but that is difficult, imprecise, and I expect AVXL doesn't do it or does it in an advantageous manner. It is no surprise they never spell out their statistical analysis in detail.