单词 | statistically significant |
释义 | > as lemmasstatistically significant 5. Statistics. Of an observed numerical result: having a low probability of occurrence if the null hypothesis is true; unlikely to have occurred by chance alone. More fully statistically significant.A result is said to be significant at a specified level of probability (typically five per cent) if it will be obtained or exceeded with not more than that probability when the null hypothesis is true. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [adjective] > significant significant1885 1885 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. (Jubilee Vol.) 187 In order to determine whether the observed difference between the mean stature of 2,315 criminals and the mean stature of 8,585 British adult males belonging to the general population is significant [etc.]. 1907 Biometrika 5 318 Relative local differences falling beyond + 2 and − 2 may be regarded as probably significant since the number of asylums is small (22). 1925 R. A. Fisher Statist. Methods iii. 47 Deviations exceeding twice the standard deviation are thus formally regarded as significant. 1931 L. H. C. Tippett Methods Statistics iii. 48 It is conventional to regard all deviations greater than those with probabilities of 0·05 as real, or statistically significant. 1971 Nature 26 Nov. 231/2 If..fifteen experiments are performed to detect a relationship which is not present, the probability that one or more experiments will give a result significant at the 0·05 level is 0·54. 2008 B. Goldacre Bad Sci. xiii. 248 So we have a risk increase of 35.7 per cent, which seems at face value to be statistically significant; but it is an isolated figure. < as lemmas |
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