statistical significance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofstatisticalandsignificance
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statistical
adjective
uk/stəˈtɪs.tɪ.kəl/us/stəˈtɪs.tɪ.kəl/
relating ...
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significance
noun[U]
uk/sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kəns/us/sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kəns/
importance:
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Examplesofstatistical significance
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While having a job was negatively associated with protest potential, the coefficient failed to meet conventional levels ofstatisticalsignificancein all models.
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Given the a priori prediction that articulation quality would explain unique variance in phoneme sensitivity, one-tailed tests ofstatisticalsignificancewere used.
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Because our hypotheses were unidirectional, we used one-tailed tests ofstatisticalsignificance.
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However, the coefficients for these variables, and for female labour-force participation as well, do not come close tostatisticalsignificance.
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When the lag is three years, it remains on the edge ofstatisticalsignificance(p 0.053).
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Throughout the model-building process attention was paid tostatisticalsignificanceof predictors and the overall fit of the model.
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What follows are reasons and explanations that show why the finding ofstatisticalsignificancedoes not signify the falsity of the chance hypothesis.
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Bootstrapping analysis with 1000 replicates was conducted to evaluate thestatisticalsignificanceof each branching point.
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However, the most striking aspect of the results was not the degree ofstatisticalsignificancebut the magnitude of the effects seen.
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Thestatisticalsignificanceof sensor combination reveals the advantage of multisensor data-fusion-based diagnostics.
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There were similar trends in the first 2 years, but these did not achievestatisticalsignificance.
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The factor group achieved the greateststatisticalsignificancewhen there was a three-way distinction: following lower sentence (34), following verb (35), and all else.
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The study also found a positive effect on ability to infer meaning from context, although the findings did not reachstatisticalsignificance.
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Our evidence in support of this position is that the grammatical person constraint reachesstatisticalsignificancefor every age group.
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The effect of the home-ownership rate was slight, with only the negative effect on deprivation reachingstatisticalsignificance.
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The coefficient for spending is negative in each of the three domains and easily meets conventional levels ofstatisticalsignificance.
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This is similar to the fact thatstatisticalsignificancedoes not always imply epistemological significance or practical significance.
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