Examples of significance

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Publication decisions and their possible effects on inferences drawn tests of significance - or vice versa.
However, such patterned personality-based variation may also have significance in terms of etiology.
There were similar trends in the first 2 years, but these did not achieve statistical significance.
However, there has been a long debate about their clinical significance.
At a power of 0.8 and effect size of 1.4, significance might be achieved if the number of arrays doubled from 5 to 10.
Beyond their inherent stylistic significance, the developments traced above probably had an impact on other elements of operatic design.
Obviously, this is not the optimal procedure because the significance of variables may change over time.
However, further testing using one of these measures, the mean square prediction error, shows that these forecast improvements are rarely significant at conventional significance levels.
The factor group achieved the greatest statistical significance when there was a three-way distinction: following lower sentence (34), following verb (35), and all else.
The significance of these contradictory findings will be discussed further later in this article.
Because of the social significance of writing, the use of urban vernaculars in written form in particular may serve as a form of social legitimation.
Our drive for deeper understanding of the significance of gender pushes us to consider the source and significance of gender variation.
The study also found a positive effect on ability to infer meaning from context, although the findings did not reach statistical significance.
The significance of the rags model comes from the explicit articulation of the distinct levels of representation and their form.
The algorithm and its theoretical significance are discussed in the paper.
The significance of these changes seems very obscure.
The texts perpetually gesture towards a moment of fulfilment that remains deferred, when their latent significance would unfurl itself in a millennial revelation.
Here lies the alternative risk of over-interpretation, of a retrospective search for misplaced significance.
If the structuralists are correct, then we would expect to see high degrees of significance and robust negative coefficients on this measure.
In order to understand the significance of the duration ratios just provided, it may prove instructive to introduce temporal information for other linguistic varieties.
The results point to the significance of the type of prime-target relation (established in the learners' minds through strategy use) on their reaction time.
We nevertheless view it to be both a useful available alternative and better than not reporting any significance tests.
When the lag is three years, it remains on the edge of statistical significance (p 0.053).
A pairwise correlation coefficient test indicates that all the variables are correlated at a 5 per cent level of significance.
The fixed effects are reported and have been tested for joint significance.
We thus encounter an inescapable double bind in our attempts to read the significance of ostensible attempts at remembrance.
Still, they suggest that the animals had a significance beyond their economic, nutritional and caloric value.
Throughout the model-building process attention was paid to statistical significance of predictors and the overall fit of the model.
Moreover, the emphasis upon the active negotiating participants has allowed us to totally ignore the significance death and mortuary practices have for those dying.
What follows are reasons and explanations that show why the finding of statistical significance does not signify the falsity of the chance hypothesis.
Not all vessel text contains information of the same significance.
Seeing individuals in couples also reveals the significance of marriage for retirement income.
The significance tests denote differences between caregivers and non-caregivers.
The remaining variables, network size, the representation of children in the network, and social dependency, were not found to be of significance.
Secondly, the significance of the events, and consequently their impacts, can vary as a function of the resources of the older person.
The study had an 80% power at a significance level of 0.05 to detect a 33% increase (hazard ration 0.75) in median survival.
Furthermore, a main effect of group for sad bias did not reach significance.
Furthermore, these models were used to systematically test the significance of occasion-, informant-, and trait-specific effects.
Overall, perceived social support and positive coping did not reach significance in any of the regression analyses.
In order to evaluate clinical significance, recovery was assessed by analysing the number of cases of depression in both groups at onset and subsequently.
When district variables are not included, the effect of participation on constitutional support loses some statistical and substantive significance.
Cofeeding ticks : epidemiological significance for tick-borne pathogen transmission.
If data had been collected after 163 h it may have increased the significance of this parameter.
Bootstrapping analysis with 1000 replicates was conducted to evaluate the statistical significance of each branching point.
The significance of this is not that drastic.
When this music reappears in the orchestra during the opera's critical closing scene, the quieter undertones of its significance become audible.
As such, the failure to show a significant positive effect of treatment might have limited clinical significance.
However, the most striking aspect of the results was not the degree of statistical significance but the magnitude of the effects seen.
One question of significance, then, lies in the extent of children's knowledge of the connection between morphemes and spelling.
The order of factors entry into the model is from top to bottom and indicate their relative order of significance.
Worthwhile results obtained from this framework must be robust enough to be independent of small numerical differences, which may be without real significance.
The poem has enduring significance because of its comment on the "transhistorical" nature of oppressive institutions.
While these findings may not be particularly surprising, their true merit resides in their validity and potential significance.
The moral significance of the intending-foreseeing distinction requires more than the mere functional role of intention and foresight.
Again, it is plausible that the clause would have foundational significance.
Similarly, whether the putatively foundational practice is consistent with all other law practices depends on the legal significance of all the law practices.
There is no doubt that this volume is of great significance for those interested in the syntax of free word order.
First, this requires attention to the significance of greeting in human interaction.
I found that this book offers many new insights into the significance of personal story in the contemporary world.
The case acquires special significance because of the amount of interest it generated.
However, it may be that historians have overlooked the significance of some of this detail.
Of related significance are references to their being childless.
Generally of more significance in a local assessment of their social standing are their lifestyle, their farming skills, the treatment of their employees and families.
The last paragraph of the note had more than mere formal significance.
Let us now discuss the biological significance of the above propositions.
What is actually meant here by functional significance is not clear.
Using the confidence interval, we can assign statistical "significance" to those cases in which the observed score lies outside of the 90% confidence range.
However, there is no reason to assume that the serviceable habits have entirely lost their original significance.
Data from the same group on the relationship between margin width and local recurrence rates confirmed the significance of this observation.
Most of the latter would have little cultural significance.
More impor tant attributes have a greater difference than those with a lower significance level.
The statistical significance of sensor combination reveals the advantage of multisensor data-fusion-based diagnostics.
However, do they have other significances; mimetic (onomatopoeic) for example?
The study raises a number of important issues concerning the nature and significances of the relationships.
At the level of the unchurched popular consciousness, particularly in the urban protestant working classes, liberty may have slightly different significances.
No significances appeared with respect to the diagnosisby-gender interactions.
In other words, it does not so much translate as add to and codify with widening significances, both movement, visual and audio gestures.
Student's t-test was used to determine the significances of the differences between the groups.
Punctuation delineates rhetorical structure, so that a reader can be explicitly alerted to certain formal contrivances relevant to the communicative significances embodied in a text.
The authors have a subtle, multi-layered view of their various significances in creating a structured and controlled environment.
In a consumerist society, money takes on different psychological and social significances for one who has grown up in excessive poverty.
Although to a lesser extent, the statistical significances of intermediate distance, indefinite distance, and attenuated distance are also negative.
No statistical significances are attested between them in any of the periods.
The significances of variables and interaction terms were tested using log likelihood ratio tests with # distribution.
The results using untransformed values were of similar significances and so these are presented here.
Experiences and descriptions of sport spectating encode the social significances of orderly and disorderly conduct; they express, organize, and make comprehensible a society's disciplinary practices.
The ordered significances of realistic fiction are presented as immanent to society, whereas in fact they are the mythical denial of that society's fragmented nature.
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