Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

significatif au seuil de...

English translation:

significant at a ... level

Added to glossary by Louisa Tchaicha
Jan 27, 2013 02:57
12 yrs ago
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French term

significatif au seuil de

French to English Bus/Financial Finance (general) variables de contrôle
Hi,

"Les t de Student mentionnés entre parenthèses peuvent être significatifs au seuil de 10%."

may be significant at the threshold of 10% or at the level of 10%?

Thank you

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significant at a ... level

significant at a/the 10% significant level/threshold

Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_interval for some more about this.

For the "peuvent", there should be a key clearly indicating which ones are significant at different levels (usually 1, 5 and 10%).

It either is or is not over 10%. So "peuvent" is a little odd. I'm guessing that you will find a key somewhere in the text, and it will probably tell you that these t-tests ARE significant at the 10% level. If not, there should be other clues in the text.
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Peer comment(s):

neutral SafeTex : 10% is not a level but a threshold. The sentence is not quite right for me
7 hrs
It is a threshold, and thresholds appear at a level. It's plain and simply how you say it. Sometimes with "statistically" in front if you prefer it that way or if you think your readers will fail to intuit the presence of "statistically"
agree rkillings
13 hrs
agree Daryo
19 hrs
neutral Nikki Scott-Despaigne : "Peuvent" seems to be describing a situation which is not unusual, drawing attention to the fact that there are some elements at the very limit, but which may none the less be statistically significant.
1 day 13 hrs
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representative at 10%level

In my opinion, significant means representative in this context.
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Peer comment(s):

disagree rkillings : It means "statistically significant".
12 hrs
disagree Daryo : the result of the test is significant ...
18 hrs
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+2
7 hrs

statistically significant with an α of 0,10

This can be expressed in a number of ways, one of which is as above.



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Note added at 7 hrs (2013-01-27 09:59:39 GMT)
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http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/stat_t.php

http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/power.php
Note from asker:
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Peer comment(s):

agree GILLES MEUNIER
7 hrs
agree Yvonne Gallagher
17 hrs
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