Significance is a synonym for

importance Importance is a property of entities that matter or make a difference. For example, World War II was an important event and Albert Einstein was an important person because of how they affected the world. There are disagreements in the academic li ...

. It can also refer to: * ''Significance'' (magazine), a magazine published by the Royal Statistical Society and the American Statistical Association *

Significance (policy debate) This is a glossary of policy debate terms. Affirmative In policy debate (also called ''cross-examination debate'' in some circuits, namely the University Interscholastic League of Texas), the ''Affirmative'' is the team that affirms the resol ...

, a stock issue in policy debate *

Significant figures Significant figures (also known as the significant digits, ''precision'' or ''resolution'') of a number in positional notation are digits in the number that are reliable and necessary to indicate the quantity of something. If a number expre ...

or significant digits, the precision of a numerical value *

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

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