The phrase
"significance threshold" refers to a predefined value that is used in statistical analysis to determine if a result is considered statistically significant or not. If a calculated value exceeds this threshold, it indicates that the result is unlikely to have occurred by chance and is therefore meaningful or important.
Full definition
The BICEP2 detectors found a surprisingly strong signal of B - mode polarization, giving them enough data to surpass the «5 - sigma»
statistical significance threshold for a true discovery.
In the first two models, low - frequency variants explain a significant proportion of the heritability, and over a hundred of them should have been uncovered at the more
forgiving significance threshold.
Fisher Exact analysis, comparing genotypes of cases to controls, identified an association signal on CFA16 (Figure 3) extending over 6 Mb and including 28 SNPs that exceeded the Bonferroni
corrected significance threshold -LRB-- Log10 (p) range = 6.39 — 10.09, Table 5).
After correcting for the seven tested indirect effects (adjusted
significance threshold remained.05), all the tested indirect paths were significant, except the path from self - esteem through avoidance motivation and social contact.
This is well above
the significance threshold.
Try enough models, one will eventually hit the 95 %
significance threshold.
A valid and correctly - formulated statistical test should reject 5 % of models at the 5 % level, etc - this is what the 5 %
significance threshold * means *.
Significance threshold were p = 0.05.