Statistical Significance
In: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods
Statistical Significance
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412950589.n971
Subject: Research Methods
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When an estimate achieves statistical significance, the thing estimated is likely to be not zero, and so becomes especially worthy of further attention. Significance tests are applied to univariate statistics, such as the mean; to bivariate statistics, such as Pearson's correlation ...
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