Sentences with phrase «statistically meaningful increase»

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Quality of life was significantly higher in participants randomized to the intervention group, who demonstrated a statistically and clinically meaningful increase in QOL at 12 weeks (P <.05 using the nonparametric Wilcoxon test).31, 32 Median survival was almost 5 months longer in the intervention group.

After one year of exposure to Playworks, students showed statistically significant increases in the following four protective factors as compared to students with no exposure to Playworks: (1) Physical Activity, (2) Problem - Solving Skills, (3) Meaningful Participation in School (4) Goals...

In schools with populations of greater than 80 % poverty rates, students who were taught by teachers in our program achieved statistically significant and meaningful increases in writing performance and critical thinking skills.

or «Gee, temperatures are going up awfully fast» but showing that such increases are statistically meaningful is hard when you have a time series of about 130 years or so and want to argue in a statistically rigorous way that the last few decades are special.

None of these could have been caused by an increase in atmospheric CO2, Model projections of warming during recent decades have greatly exceeded what has been observed, The modelling community has openly acknowledged that the ability of existing models to simulate past climates is due to numerous arbitrary tuning adjustments, Observations show no statistically valid trends in flooding or drought, and no meaningful acceleration whatsoever of pre-existing long term sea level rise (about 6 inches per century) worldwide, Current carbon dioxide levels, around 400 parts per million are still very small compared to the averages over geological history, when thousands of parts per million prevailed, and when life flourished on land and in the oceans.

You also try to point to the short term trend of increase as meaningful which statistically it is not.