Significant
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| Significant | |
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| Term | Significant |
| Short definition | significant - (pronounced) (sig-NIH-fih-kunt) In statistics, describes a mathematical measure of the difference between groups. The difference is said to be significant if it is greater than what would be expected by chance alone. |
| Type | Cancer terms |
| Specialty | Oncology |
| Language | English |
| Source | NCI |
| Comments | |
significant - (pronounced) (sig-NIH-fih-kunt) In statistics, describes a mathematical measure of the difference between groups. The difference is said to be significant if it is greater than what would be expected by chance alone. Also referred to as statistically significant
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