有ゆう意い性せい

noun

significance; statistical significance

Technical term used mainly in statistics and mathematics to indicate that a result is unlikely to have occurred by chance.

• このデータの有ゆう意い性せいを検けん定ていする必ひつ要ようがある。

  We need to test the significance of this data.

• 有ゆう意い性せいが認みとめられなかったため、仮か説せつは棄き却きゃくされた。

  The hypothesis was rejected because no significance was found.