Sentences with phrase «statistically significant»

Following adjustment for baseline patient risk factors, the observed treatment effect was not statistically significant.

There were plenty of overlaps — female executives, men who wanted flexibility — but the gender divide as a trend represented statistically significant differences.

Roughly 10 percent of men aged 60 or older who were among the top third in BPA concentrations developed cardiovascular disease compared with roughly 7 percent of similarly aged men with the lowest BPA concentrations, a difference that was statistically significant.

«Our findings suggest that the common pesticides chlorothalonil, fluvalinate, coumaphos and chloropyrifos, individually or in mixtures, have statistically significant impacts on honeybee larval survivorship,» Mullin said.

However, a small but statistically significant number — about 4 percent — were found to use alternative treatments classified by the study as potentially unsafe, invasive or unproven, such as antifungal medications, chelation therapy and vitamin B - 12 injections.

Of these samples, 20 showed statistically significant improvements in the quality of the profile compared with using AmpliTaqGold (Biotechniques, vol 47, p 351).

«Both unadjusted and risk - adjusted mortality showed a highly statistically significant association between volume and mortality,» he said.

At least one CSI was sustained by 7.4 % of the riders wearing a helmet and 15.4 % of those not wearing one; this difference in percentages is statistically significant (p = 0.001).

Cervical spine fractures occurred more often in patients who were not wearing helmets (10.8 % compared to 4.6 %; p = 0.001), as did ligament injuries (1.9 % compared with 0.3 %; p = 0.04); again these differences are statistically significant.

The study found the impact of oral nutritional supplements on length of stay and cost of care were even more impactful and statistically significant when looking at all Medicare patients aged 65 and older with any primary diagnosis:

There was not a statistically significant increase in non-EMS first responder AED use in public places, which Fordyce attributes to timely defibrillation by EMS.

An increase that is statistically significant.

If we use B we get more accurate results that are statistically significant.

There were not «statistically significant» elevated rates of any type of cancer that studies have linked to PFOA contamination in the village of Hoosick Falls, the DOH's review of state data found.

But immigration of non-EU citizens saw a statistically significant decrease, to 244,000 from 269,000 the previous year.

But the results of the study, which looked at data from 1995 through 2014, did not show statistically significant rates of illnesses typically associated with PFOA exposure.

When the Club for Growth's $ 287,000 in TV ads aimed at swaying conservative - leaning voters on Hoffman's behalf first hit the airwaves a few weeks ago, Scozzafava enjoyed a slim but statistically significant edge in this Republican - leaning district: A Siena survey released earlier this month, before the Club for Growth and Hoffman ads hit the airwaves, found she held a 7 - point edge over Owens, 35 - 28 percent.

In only two seats was the change statistically significant, both in Labour's favour: Stroud, where Labour have a high - profile candidate in David Drew, the former MP; and Warrington South, where the constituency question produced a boost for the Lib Dems consistent with the fact that it was at the last election almost a three - way marginal.

However the DfT suggests that the «statistically significant» rise in KSIs may be down to a change in the way casualties are recorded by police forces through the CRASH system.

Most of these polls are - for cost reasons - based on samples of only around 1,000 individuals and few if any of the shifts represent anything statistically significant within that.

According to NFER «the differences in school GCSE performance between sponsored academies that have been open for between two and four years and a group of similar maintained schools were generally small and mostly not statistically significant.»

Democratic tech powerhouse NGP VAN mined the massive voter contact data flowing through its systems and reports that «voter contact efforts [in 2014] are outpacing 2010 by a statistically significant margin.»

It collated results from a five - year study and a two - year study of 159 middle schools in Texas and found no statistically significant improvement in scores for English, maths, science or social studies, despite a # 3,000 bonus being offered to successful teachers.

It is important to note that «key words» in this technical sense are not always the most important to the meaning of the text; rather, they are «key» to determining statistically significant differences between texts or corpora.

I do this to determine if results are consistent — they say the same thing each time — and are believable (i.e., statistically significant), because findings can be inconsistent.

When responses to all three questions are included in our models, European preferences and cultural threat are statistically significant but economic threat is not.

According to the actual paper, the 5 % difference was statistically significant, and follow - up questioning of participants showed that positive responses far outweighed any backlash.

With an even number of justices, while majorities may be more «statistically significant», the 3rd possibility of a tie means the Lower Court prevails but each District can continue doing their own thing.

Alexander Kentikelenis, Thomas Stubbs, and Lawrence King from the University of Cambridge replicate the results and do not discern any statistically significant relationship between health and education expenditure and IMF programmes for LDCs.

A national assembly comprising a statistically significant sample of the electorate is a crucial initial step toward a democratic constitution because political parties tend to serve as interest organizations for politicians or other groups.

(Don't worry about the math; whatever tool you use should let you know whether the results are statistically significant).

It found that studies of the United States or U.S. cities, states and regions «generally find a statistically significant gun prevalence - homicide association.»

There have been studies that show a statistically significant relationship, but causality as you know is a much higher burden to prove.

Both these differences were statistically significant.»

In doing so, we did find a statistically significant positive correlation between performance and voting intention as measured by Public Policy Polling data around the same time.

Such studies have shown a statistically significant relationship between guns and murder but not a causal one.

(I don't mean 1 guy in a group of 10s of thousands, i mean statistically significant subgrouping)

However, there is one statistically significant result that suggests that constituency factors and re-election concerns might be affecting MPs» positions: MPs elected in seats with higher levels of UKIP vote share are more likely to be uncommitted on the referendum.

The data suggests that the smaller an MP's margin of victory (i.e. the less electorally «safe» the MP's seat) the higher the predicted overall spending, at a statistically significant and substantive level.

The effect is small, but statistically significant, making it important to consider in policies aimed at increasing female representation in politics.

Average HMIC (Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary) ratings of forces improved slightly after the introduction of PCCs, but the measured improvement was too small to be statistically significant.

Neither did I say it was a necessary feature (although definitely statistically significant).

Asking people how they plan to get to the polls, which the Analyst Institute has found can make a statistically significant difference in how many of them actually show up.

However, when the researchers looked just at the siblings who were fed differently, the benefits were not statistically significant.

These outcomes therefore did not show a formally statistically significant effect using the conventional P = 0.05 cut - off, but are suggestive that midwife - led care may, on average, be beneficial.

None of the Begg and Egger tests were statistically significant, although the power of these tests for detecting small study bias was low especially in the studies conducted in adults.

All reported no «statistically significant» association between breastfeeding and either systolic or diastolic blood pressure.

Mothers who breast feed tend to be older, have a better education, and a higher socioeconomic status, than mothers who breast feed their children for a limited time or not at all.3 15 In some studies the association between breast feeding and cognitive development is not statistically significant after adjustment for such confounders.16 - 20

At all ages, control infants were breastfed at higher rates than SIDS victims, and the protective effect of partial or exclusive breastfeeding remained statistically significant after adjustment for confounders.244 A recent meta - analysis that included 18 case - control studies revealed an unadjusted summary OR for any breastfeeding of 0.40 (95 % CI: 0.35 — 0.44).

Are the results of the studies at the end statistically significant?