Ninety-three patients who took Vytorin in the study developed cancer, compared to 65 on placebo, a statistically significant difference.
Likewise, the average return in "Democratic" years is 11.9%, while the mean in "Republican" House years is 11.5%--certainly not a statistically significant difference.
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Unfortunately (and surprisingly) only two of the studies addressed the question of disease transmission directly, and the numbers involved were too small to find a statistically significant difference between groups.
The researchers said they found a "statistically significant" difference between the breath profiles of the mice infected with the bacteria and the mice that were uninfected.
If you brew a green tea at 80C for 2 minutes, you will not observe a (statistically significant) difference in taste versus 1 min at 90C or 30 seconds at boiling.
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The median progression-free survival for patients receiving T-DM1 was 9.6 months, compared to 6.4 months in the group receiving Xeloda and Tykerb, a difference considered statistically significant.
The new results correlate well with Milgram's: 70 percent of the 40 participants were willing to continue after 150 volts, compared with 82.5 percent in Milgram's study -- a difference that is not statistically significant, Burger said.
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There was a trend toward the virus helping patients live longer, but the difference is not yet statistically significant.
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Participants making a full smile performed better than the polite-smile group, but the difference wasn't statistically significant and needs to be studied further, she says.
There is still a chance that patients on Ranexa did better than those who received placebos, but the difference wasn't statistically significant.
There was no statistically significant difference among these groups to volunteer time with retarded children or to resist temptation to cheat on a test (There was only one group in which a majority did not cheat: the atheists).
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