Aggregation tests (sometimes called burden tests) were developed to help identify genetic association driven by variants that, individually, are too rare to
reach statistical significance on their own.
Not exact matches
For the comparison of intercessory prayer plus standard care versus standard care alone, overall there was no clear effect of intercessory prayer
on death, with the effect not
reaching statistical significance and data being heterogeneous (6 RCTs, n = 6784, random - effects RR 0.77 CI 0.51 to 1.16, I (2) 83 %).
The increase in the rate of injury among children who were being carried
on the stairs did not
reach statistical significance (m = 0.059, P =.082).
An influential 2012 report
on 120 monkeys being studied at the National Institute of Aging (NIA) reported no differences in survival for caloric restriction animals and a trend toward improved health that did not
reach statistical significance.
We surmise, based
on our implementation of the methodology, that the R - squared and Coefficient of Efficiency (as this is defined in paleoclimate studies) statistics fail to
reach statistical significance for the AD1400 step.
There were no statistically significant effects
on child cognitive development, internalising behaviour or externalising behaviour at post-intervention; however, internalising and externalising behaviours were marginally significant and may have
reached statistical significance with a larger sample.
The indirect effect of spatial anxiety
on mobility was in the expected direction but did not
reach statistical significance; however, its inclusion did make the model perform better overall.
Limitations include reliability of self - reported measures, program impact
on childhood mortality does not
reach conventional levels of
statistical significance and generalizability due to ethnicity.
Importantly, PMTO's effect
on mothers» arrests may well be valid, but because it
reached statistical significance in only one of two measures (i.e., number versus likelihood of arrest)-- and possibly not at the 0.05 level — we believe it needs confirmation in additional studies to rule out the possibility that it is a chance finding.
3 The study found suggestive positive effects
on parenting stress and maternal depression, but they did not
reach statistical significance in most analyses and therefore could be due to chance.
The agreement between therapist and patient
on tasks (t14 = 1.26, P =.22, d = 0.22) and the bond between therapist and patient were rated higher as well (t14 = 1.62, P =.12, d = 0.33), although the difference did not
reach statistical significance and the effect sizes were small.