The correlation of B12 deficiency with hyperhomocysteinemia could well
reach statistical significance if a larger group of subjects were studied.»
Not exact matches
Then they compare results to see
if they've
reached statistical significance, hopefully demonstrating that the real medication is better than the placebo.
In four other surveys, the effect goes in the expected negative direction, even
if it does not
reach conventional levels of
statistical significance.
SN: But in the real world,
if you
reach statistical significance of 0.05 in your study, your product moves forward.
Researchers at the LHC are hoping to collect about three times as much data at a higher energy of 8 TeV in 2012, which should allow each of its experiments separately to
reach a level of
statistical significance of 5 sigma, enough to claim a discovery,
if the standard model Higgs exists.