significance testing
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsignificanceandtesting
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significance
noun[U]
uk/sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kəns/us/sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kəns/
importance:
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testing
adjective
uk/ˈtes.tɪŋ/us/ˈtes.tɪŋ/
difficult:
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These virtues do not, however, extend to most of the applications for which psychology relies on statisticalsignificancetesting.
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Forsignificancetesting, 6 s of recording were divided into 100-150 ms bins.
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While this exercise does not affect the precision andsignificancetestingof narrow-sense heritability estimates, it may introduce bias in their magnitude.
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Significancetestingis most relevant for estimating the generalizability of the results from a sample to a larger population.
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In both checks, we obtained the same effects as shown in this table, both in terms ofsignificancetestingand substantive interpretation.
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However, statistical power posed a problem forsignificancetesting.
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To arrive at definitive conclusions regarding these comparisons, we assumed a statistical methodology based on statisticalsignificancetesting.
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In general, the psychological community relies onsignificancetestingas the metric of whether two groups differ.
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The small number of generations and the continuous distribution of generation numbers hamperedsignificancetestingof changes in allele frequencies.
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We also note that the interpretation ofsignificancetestingof correlations is unclear in the present context.
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Even more problematic, they do not provide sufficient information for other researchers to do their ownsignificancetesting.
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For model selection andsignificancetesting, we therefore suggest a different randomization testing procedure (as described).
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Significancetestingwas performed on each chromosome separately using chromosome- and genome-wide criteria as describe in the text.
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Significancetestingis based upon unweighted m re-computed from weighted proportions.
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To date few such studies have included females in large enough numbers to study the rare phenomenon of the life-coursepersistent girl with adequate power forsignificancetesting.
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We performedsignificancetestingusing 1000 permutations of the data within each population.
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Cohen (1977, 1988) pointed out thatsignificancetestingcan be misleading if not interpreted in relation to the magnitude of effect size.
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Furthermore, repeatedsignificancetestingfor seasonal trends for individual lesions runs the risk of introducing a so-called 'type 1' statistical error.
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In fact, the reasonableness of rejecting the chance hypothesis on the basis of a statistically significant result has been in question since the beginning ofsignificancetesting.
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Expected mean squares and variance components were calculated, and used to construct synthetic denominators that accommodated the unbalanced design and allowedsignificancetesting.
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