The gamers also had a decrease in suppressed, internalized anger that reached marginal statistical significance.
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PROVE-IT also included other kinds of heart disease in order to assure they reached statistical significance.
As you are aware, Evidence Based Practices (EBP) means that statistical significance for the treatment was obtained.
Not surprisingly, the effect lost statistical significance at two years since active intervention lasted only 12 months.
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This is a fancy way of saying that statistical significance is not the only way to measure risk.
In addition with such a small data set there is little statistical significance.
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Only one of those is moving in the right direction above the level of the test of statistical significance.
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Once the DMC determines that there are enough subjects enrolled for statistical significance, enrollment of new subjects will be complete.
But initial results being presented at a press briefing at ASCO did not reach statistical significance in preventing colon cancer from progressing.
Statistical significance is a combination of two factors: how many patients were included in the study and how much the drug helped them.
After 15 years the reduction in risk achieved statistical significance, and by 20 years the risk was similar to women who had never smoked.
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But though he has nothing but praise for the way the study was conducted and reported, he notes that this statistical significance is only borderline.
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The new study does not reach the level of statistical significance.
In a note to investors, he said one cause appeared to be that many women were dropping out of the Premarin trial, which could undermine its statistical significance.
But the Tevatron results are currently at the one-sigma level of certainty - a lower level of statistical significance than those presented by the Atlas and CMS teams.
Despite seemingly tight controls, 26% of children withdrew early from the study and the data lost statistical significance if 18-month data for the dropouts were included in the calculations.
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Other experiments had seen some evidence of the D-meson's flipping, but this is the first that crosses the "five sigma" level of statistical significance that particle physicists use to denote an official discovery.
Because of the this change, and because the data and safety monitoring board reviewed the data multiple times over the course of the study, the threshold for statistical significance was lowered to 0.036.
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An older study found statistical significance only among west-coast teams, who saw their away-game winning percentage fall by 16% when playing on the east coast, compared with travelling within their home time zone.
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The bad news: The new Genentech test did not reach statistical significance, meaning that it does not pass a mathematical litmus test to prove beyond a doubt that the result was not based on chance.
But so far, neither the results from the U.S. collider experiments nor from the the Large Hadron Collider, located 328 feet underneath the border of France and Switzerland, have enough statistical significance to constitute a discovery.
The doses of folate tended to be much higher than those proposed for mandatory fortification of flour, but a slight increase in cancer incidence recorded in this group did not reach statistical significance, meaning it could be the product of chance alone.
In contrast, two researchers connected with A to Z defended the results, asserting in interviews that the study fell just short of statistical significance and describing the results as new evidence that patients who have suffered heart attacks should take powerful doses of cholesterol-lowering drugs.
The investigators were cautious in their interpretation, noting that the trial barely achieved statistical significance, most of the difference was found in the softer endpoint of revascularization, and the finding is less reliable since there was a high withdrawal rate (17%) of patients in the trial.
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He says the reason that the new study failed to reach statistical significance may be related because 20 milligrams of Zocor is more powerful than 40 milligrams of Pravachol, the Bristol-Myers Squibb (nyse: BMY - news - people ) drug that Lipitor beat in a clinical trial in March.
Advanced statistical tests of significance (t-tests) verify that the Monday, Friday, and Sunday markups are significantly different from each other.
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Too often, people believe the approach to solving complex questions is to just reduce our standards for confidence when making a decision about data (more technically, this may translate to reducing the level of significance in a statistical test).
However, when he modified his statistical methods to take into account the fact that he was testing 24 hypotheses, not one, the boundary of significance dropped dramatically.
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