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STATISTICALLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

With respect to statistics

Example:

this is statistically impossible

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

statistical (of or relating to statistics)

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 Context examples: 

A new meta-analysis of more than 135,000 people with major depression and more than 344,000 controls has identified 44 genomic variants, or loci, that have a statistically significant association with depression.

(Forty-Four Genomic Variants Linked to Major Depression, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Participants experiencing better empathy also tended to have a lower risk of cardiovascular disease events, although this was not statistically significant.

(Patients with an ‘empathic’ GP at reduced risk of early death, University of Cambridge)

This negative relationship remained statistically significant for samples from both living and dead trees in both regions.

(Amount of carbon stored in forests reduced as climate warms, University of Cambridge)

The death rate, or proportion of a given population that dies, during a specified time period, statistically modified to eliminate the effect of the various age distributions.

(Age-Adjusted Mortality Rate, NCI Thesaurus)

After they statistically accounted for smoking, family history, and other factors known to increase high blood pressure risk, the researchers found that women who adhered to a healthy diet were 20 percent less likely to develop high blood pressure than those who did not.

(Healthy diet may reduce high blood pressure risk after gestational diabetes, NIH)

So we will have to wait for 2015 to know whether this device in the usage and the waves it creates around citizens, we will have to wait for 2015 to know whether it causes tumours in a statistically significant way.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

Although the differences in survival rates between the groups were not great enough to be statistically significant, infants receiving the standard treatment had a slightly higher survival rate than did the infants in the other groups.

(Longer cooling, lower temperature no improvement for infant oxygen deprivation, NIH)

The relationship was statistically significant for female breast cancer, for which every 100 milligray (mGy) of dose led to a 12% increased relative risk of breast cancer mortality, and for all other solid tumors considered together, for which relative risk of mortality was increased by 5% per every 100 mGy.

(Long-term increased risk of cancer death following common treatment for hyperthyroidism, National Institutes of Health)

The reports also point out statistically significant increases in the number of rats and mice with tumors found in other organs at one or more of the exposure levels studied, including the brain, prostate gland, pituitary gland, adrenal gland, liver, and pancreas.

(High exposure to radiofrequency radiation linked to tumor activity in male rats, National Institutes of Health)