Significance is a synonym for
importance. It can also refer to:
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''Significance'' (magazine), a magazine published by the Royal Statistical Society and the American Statistical Association
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Significance (policy debate), a stock issue in policy debate
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Significant figures or significant digits, the precision of a numerical value
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Statistical significance
In statistical hypothesis testing, a result has statistical significance when it is very unlikely to have occurred given the null hypothesis (simply by chance alone). More precisely, a study's defined significance level, denoted by \alpha, is the p ...
, the extent to which a result is unlikely to be due to chance alone
See also
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Meaning (disambiguation)
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Significand
The significand (also mantissa or coefficient, sometimes also argument, or ambiguously fraction or characteristic) is part of a number in scientific notation or in floating-point representation, consisting of its significant digits. Depending on ...
, part of a number in floating-point representation
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