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Statistical significance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In statistics, a result is called statistically significant if it is unlikely to have occurred by chance. The phrase ‘ test of significance ’, like so much in modern statistics, was coined by Rona...
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Mid-autumn festival lanterns in Hong Kong (photo-essay) ... When I was a young girl in Penang, I used to enjoy celebrating that which I used to think of as the lantern festival -- Malaysia being a place where it's perennially summer (and there thus being no autumn, never mind mid-autumn). ... From Victoria Park, 2007:
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Having said that, I agree with Marty that the real significance of this decision is not its effects on military commissions themselves, but the broad legal principles the decision affirms.
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The quality or state of being significant. ... That which is signified; meaning; import; as, the significance of a nod, of a motion of the hand, or of a word or expression.
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Significance of March 4 -- March 4, 1789 ... At New York City's Federal Hall (pictured), on March 4, 1789, the Senate convened for the first time. From 1789 until 1933, when the Constitution's Twentieth Amendment changed the convening time to 12 noon on January 3, the date of March ... March 4, 1789; The Significance of March 4...
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