marginal significance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmarginalandsignificance
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marginal
adjective
uk/ˈmɑː.dʒɪ.nəl/us/ˈmɑːr.dʒɪ.nəl/
very small in amount ...
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significance
noun[U]
uk/sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kəns/us/sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kəns/
importance:
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Oddly, however, education has a negative effect in the 1980s, albeit atmarginalsignificancelevels.
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Because the interaction effect is not significant, themarginalsignificanceof the effect of context can be ignored, as it will not affect between-group comparisons.
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This offers some evidence for oviposition effects of heterospecific tracks, although themarginalsignificance and small sample size dictate the necessity for further empirical tests.
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One can reject equality of these means at the 5%marginalsignificancelevel, although not at the 1%marginalsignificancelevels.
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Kurylowicz suggests that contrasts ofmarginalsignificancetend to be abandoned in favor of maintaining major contrasts in the language.
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Only the 80% volume dose of the 6-field technique was slightly lower than the other two techniques withmarginalsignificance(p = 0.0453).
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In this context, columns 1-3 provide a relatively robust set of results, with even the least significant finding in the 660 regressions approachingmarginalsignificance(p 0.1784).
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Of course, these measures will afford some support to growers in this country who may be of onlymarginalsignificancein the industry.
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I doubt whether such an amount is of more thanmarginalsignificanceto any small company.
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So the difference between 1·5 and 1·4 is not something about which we should be terribly excited, although it is ofmarginalsignificance.
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I would go further and say that, on his figures, it would only have amarginalsignificanceupon the problem.
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She will buy buttons, because she wants buttons, and the tax will not be of more thanmarginalsignificancein an infinitesimal proportion of the cases.
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The minority party offers opposition, but it is ofmarginalsignificance, typically because the minority is so small.
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The former one showed a small peak ofmarginalsignificancein the decay mode, and a larger, apparently robust signal in the decay mode.
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Somali plantation agriculture was of onlymarginalsignificanceto the world economy, however.
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