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significant

Term · Oncology and biomedicine · MLC-T-ONC-007762

In statistics, describes a mathematical measure of difference between groups. The difference is said to be significant if it is greater than what might be expected to happen by chance alone. Also called statistically significant.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ONC-007762
FieldOncology and biomedicine
Synonymsstatistically significant
ReferencesNCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-ONC-007762",
  "term": "significant",
  "field": "Oncology and biomedicine",
  "definition": "In statistics, describes a mathematical measure of difference between groups. The difference is said to be significant if it is greater than what might be expected to happen by chance alone. Also called statistically significant.",
  "synonyms": [
    "statistically significant"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oncology/significant/"
}

Record 14,980 of 17,721 in Oncology and biomedicine terminology (MLC-0111). Request the full dataset.