significance
Definitions
Health Economics
- (written as Significance)Statistical significance is defined under those headwords. Other forms of significance include clinical and policy significance. A result may be statistically significant but, for example, too small or rare to be of major clinical or policy significance. In general, statistical significance probably ought to be regarded as a necessary precondition for results to have either of the other kinds of significance.
Information & Library Science
- noun the importance, special meaning or value of something
