Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

statistical significance

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.86 in modern English

Syllables
sta-tis-ti-cal sig-nif-i-cance
IPA
33
Scrabble Score
23
Letters
7
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A measure of how unlikely it is that a result has occurred by chance.

Countable; Uncountable

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What does statistical significance mean?
A measure of how unlikely it is that a result has occurred by chance.

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