Chi - square with a continuity correction assessed
the significance of differences in variable frequencies between groups.
The superscripts in the third column denote the statistical
significance of differences between married and widowed persons.
The superscripts in the sixth and ninth columns denote the statistical
significance of differences by the spousal age gap within each marital status.
The significance of differences between the reference category and other categories are indicated by «p».
T - tests were used to assess
the significance of the differences between the two independent samples for each variable.
It is important to be aware of
the significance of the differences internationally in definitions of learning disabilities.
Analysis was conducted on an intention to treat basis using paired t tests and Wilcoxon matched pairs signed rank test (as appropriate for the distribution of scores) to calculate
the significance of differences between baseline and follow up scores within groups.
We quantify the statistical
significance of differences in the populations of different time periods using the block bootstrap resampling approach of ref.
We'll attempt to highlight and discuss
the significance of these differences using current data from our comprehensive pet food database.
We calculated paired - samples ttests to estimate
the significance of differences in these ratings.
Murray's earlier books — Losing Ground in 1984, on welfare policy, and The Bell Curve (with Richard Herrnstein) in 1994, on
the significance of differences in intelligence as measured by intelligence tests — aroused controversy, because, implicitly or explicitly, they focused attention on black Americans, who play a disproportionate role in welfare policy, and as a group score lower than whites on IQ tests.
When testing the statistical
significance of differences between sectors, however, we take into account the full distribution of responses across all options.
Q values indicate
significance of differences after adjusting for multiple comparisons by controlling the false discovery rate for selected comparisons.
Throughout, Q values indicate
significance of differences after adjusting for multiple comparisons by controlling the false discovery rate for selected comparisons.
Statistical analyses was performed to assess
the significance of differences between vitamin A conversion factors by sex and to determine correlations between conversion factors and the BMI of each subject.
Mill uses a distinction between «higher» and «lower» pleasures to respond to the criticism that utilitarianism can not account for the moral
significance of the differences between human beings and (other) animals.
To begin, we will have to think seriously about the value of change, the nature of the body and
the significance of difference.
There is again an indication that younger women were more likely to vote Labour, although the overlapping confidence intervals mean we can not be sure of the magnitude and
significance of a difference.
The significance of that difference in lifestyle became painfully apparent last January, when he was diagnosed with diabetes.
«Given
the significance of the difference, it must have fitness consequences,» he says.
That's a shame given
the significance of the difference in IR: «group by month 6 interaction, P = 0.001» = 99.9 % that it is not coincidence.
I forget the details e.g.
significance of the difference, and only read a popular summary in an AARP newsletter.
However, in view of the uncertain
significance of the difference between the genders, the same protein EAR [i.e., Estimated Average Requirement, a foundation for the RDA] on a body weight basis for both men and women is chosen.
Referring to my last post, think about
the significance of this difference of 2.692 per cent.
The significance of the difference would depend on how the data is being used.
Then compute students t to determine
the significance of any difference between the trends.
The significance of the difference between the two groups is apparent — a higher allowance rate can translate to greater client satisfaction and increase the likelihood of repeat representation.
Comparing the Google Android update system with Microsoft's Windows and
the significance of the difference is immediately obvious.
The percentage of patients reporting a reduction in those illness beliefs and coping behaviours previously found to be associated with poor outcome (strong belief in a physical cause or persistent viral infection and extreme avoidance of exercise) 10 13 14 between baseline and the end of treatment was calculated in each treatment group and
the significance of the difference determined by χ2 test.
Not exact matches
Not properly accounting for
differences between business owners and non business owners in studies
of household wealth can lead to erroneous conclusions about the
significance of different saving motives.
They are mainly based on what I read in Christopher C. Roberts» excellent Creation & Covenant: The
Significance of Sexual
Difference in the Moral Theology
of Marriage.
But if there is no meaningful
difference between a male — female couple conceiving a child naturally and same - sex couples conceiving children through surrogates and various technological means, then it follows that nothing
of ontological
significance attaches to natural motherhood and fatherhood or to having a father and a mother.
We are a long way from understanding how sex enters into the child's growth, and the
significance of human
differences.
Johnson focuses on four aspects
of contemporary armed conflict that, while not unprecedented, have become special concerns: the legitimacy
of intervention, the place
of noncombatants, the
significance of cultural
differences, and procedures for dealing with war crimes and achieving reconciliation after conflict.
Thus it is not the literal mind
of the religious zealot that prevents Muslims from seeing the
difference between fact and fantasy or between dream and sanity, and we flatter ourselves if we think it is refined sensibility rather than cultural limitation that makes us strip dreams
of any real
significance.
So this thought on the
significance of individual heroism making a
difference leads me to a quick review
of For Greater Glory.
The three differ in some matters
of factual detail, and to some extent in the way in which they express the
significance they attach to the events; but the
differences are not
of substance.
These four divisions show that some Jews wanted to be assured that the
difference between the righteous faithful and the ungodly sinners would be given due recognition and would be
of permanent
significance; this desire was met by the first and last divisions.
To develop a thought's meaning we need therefore only determine what conduct it is fitted to produce; that conduct is for us its sole
significance; and the tangible fact at the root
of all our thought - distinctions is that there is no one
of them so fine as to consist in anything but a possible
difference of practice.
If there were any part
of a thought that made no
difference in the thought's practical consequences, then that part would be no proper element
of the thought's
significance.
(If, as the Qumrân fragment most recently published by Allegro seems to confirm, the «teacher
of righteousness»
of this sect really was put to death and his return was awaited, still what most decisively separates this sect from the original Christian community [apart from the other
differences, for which see my article, «The
Significance of the Qumrân Texts», J. B.L., 1955.
People are tired, and a bit lonely — and because the great reality
of our sexual
differences is something they do know about, and suspect may be
of greater
significance than the dear ladies
of DARC and WATCH and NADAWM and so on can fathom — they think that the truth
of God is too remote and bleak and can never really be discovered.
Rescue workers took comfort in this remnant
of the building structure and they prayed to it as a religious object.But there is a
difference between displaying an artifact
of historical
significance and saying we want you [the public] to bless it — museum goers understand that distinction»...
But then the question emerges, If the moral
difference between directly and indirectly intending is simply the relation
of desire to the evil, what is the moral
significance of intending something as a means?
We give witness that the Church's teachings — on the dignity
of the human person and the value
of human life from conception to natural death; on the meaning
of human sexuality, the
significance of sexual
difference and the complementarity
of men and women; on openness to life and the gift
of motherhood; and on marriage and family founded on the indissoluble commitment
of a man and a woman — provide a sure guide to the Christian life, promote women's flourishing, and serve to protect the poor and most vulnerable among us.
It was important for them to understand the
difference between the various baptisms, and the
significance of each.
You have to understand the
significance of that third horse, for it marks the
difference between town and country — even a small town surrounded by country, like Pierre.
They point to other destructive aspects
of television that have been stressed by television researchers and theorists; the privatization
of experience at the expense
of family and social interaction and rela - tionships; (33) the promotion
of fear as the appropriate attitude to life: (34) television's cultural levelling effects which blur local, regional, and national
differences and impose a distorted and primarily free - enterprise, competitive and capitalistic picture
of events and their
significance; (35) television's suppression
of social dialogue; (36) its distorted and exploitative presentation
of certain social groups: (37) the increasing alienation felt by most viewers in relation to this central means
of social communication; (38) and its negative effects on the development
of the full range
of human potential.
The Western Protestant experience, which included church splits and the formation
of new denominations on the basis
of national, ethnic and class
differences — as well as
differences of doctrine, sacramental practice and biblical interpretation — had been exported to the mission fields, where many
of these
differences seemed to be
of even less enduring
significance than they were at home.
*
Significance was inferred by the 95 % CI
of the
difference between means.