The percentage of overweight respondents, particularly those who were obese, shows a statistically significant increase over the years.

Statistically, this works.

These results found no statistically significant differences in valvulopathy rates compared to control, being 2.3 for the drug subjects and 2.2 for controls.

In the case of girls, there is a statistically significant change in terms of physical activity from the sixth grade to the eighth.

Also, a genetic study in 2009 revealed a small but statistically significant genetic contribution of Northwest African genes among today's inhabitants near the city of Lucera.

Statistically, that is a known association.

They think they're going to maybe come to like the picture they chose a little more than the one they left behind, but these are not statistically significant differences.

Long term and well designed research and monitoring programmes and studies in order to detect and determine statistically significant trends in the composition, quantities and effects of marine litter globally and regionally

An iterative, statistically based approach will be used to construct the model.

There was also a slight, but statistically significant, decline in the severity of assaults between these two time periods Rates of spousal violence have dropped in 2001 and 2002, following a steady increase between 1998 and 2000.

Two thirds of this room, today, in America, are statistically overweight or obese.

They coded correlations in the thickness of gray matter in different parts of the brain using a false color scheme, in which no difference is coded as purple, and any color other than purple indicates a statistically significant correlation.

About 12 percent of women reported being assaulted by a spouse in the five year period prior to the 1993 survey, compared with eight percent who reported violence during a similar time period in 1999, a drop which is statistically significant.

Moreover, Séralini s results contradict the latest meta study of 24 long term studies (up to two years and five generations), which found that the data do not suggest any health hazards and display no statistically significant differences between GM and conventional food.

Three groups have independently attempted to reproduce these results, but found that the detection of the concentric anomalies was not statistically significant, in the sense that such circles would appear in a proper Gaussian simulation of the anisotropy in the CMB data.

Criminologists have shown, statistically, that in US states where convicts are executed, serious crimes have not diminished.

Of course, past performance is no guarantee of future results, and two cases do not constitute a statistically significant sample. Just because the dollar weakened twice during the last two periods of Fed tightening does not prove that the same thing will happen again.

Without statistically relevant data for backing and implicit generalization, there is no guarantee that the generalization is correct.

And so even if we make those very important decisions for very silly reasons, it remains statistically true that there are more Georges living in Georgia and there are more Dennises becoming dentists and there are more Paulas who are married to Paul than statistically viable.

For example, fascinating talks contain a statistically high amount of exactly this blue color, much more than the average TEDTalk.

Why do, statistically, a majority of people say that a word is sad, in this case, heavy in other cases?

We are often told that air travel, statistically speaking, has a better safety record than any other form of transport.

Furthermore, it is common to assume in public policy that what is not easily measured statistically is insignificant or does not exist.

But there were no statistically significant differences between subjects with or without religious backgrounds, with approximately 90 of subjects saying that it is permissible to flip the switch on the boxcar, 97 saying that it is obligatory to rescue the baby, and 97 saying that is forbidden to remove the healthy man s organs.

First, wealth effects are statistically small most studies show that only about 3 5 cents of every dollar of asset appreciation eventually feeds through to higher personal consumption.

For example, a 12 year study of 19,000 white American women found that 101 genetic markers that had been statistically linked to heart disease had no predictive value.

Now, to make this more concrete, let's look at the list of top 10 words that statistically stick out in the most favorite TEDTalks and in the least favorite TEDTalks.

So one of the very first things we teach people in economics and statistics and business and psychology courses is how, in a statistically valid way, do we eliminate the weirdos.

While statistically that may be the case, the possibility of such noble intentions being realized will continue to remain elusive, if current regional group voting practices are anything to go by.

But one late night, when I was compiling the report I really realized my discovery. I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.

Did you know that if you file your tax returns yourself, you're statistically more likely to be filing them correctly than if you get a tax adviser to do it for you?

Other significant developments

Nearly 50 years ago, a statistically minded historian of science, Derek de Solla Price, observed that the best indicator of academic research production is a nation s energy consumption per capita both grow together.

That could be significant.

Significant cross jurisdictional initiatives

Forty per cent of the Panamanian population lives below the poverty line, but we are nevertheless statistically designated as a medium to high income country and therefore our access to external aid is very limited.

These differences were highly significant.

His letters become less significant.

It is a significant achievement.

The gaps would be significant.

There were other significant reactions.

Relative poverty, however, is significant.

No significant contamination was detected.

Summary of significant accounting policies

We are often told that air travel, statistically speaking, has a better safety record than any other form of transport. The numerous interrelated reasons for this might usefully be summarized by comparing an airplane to a bicycle.