The phrase "a statistically significant number" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts involving research, data analysis, or statistics to indicate that a particular number or result is unlikely to have occurred by chance.
Example: "In our study, we found a statistically significant number of participants reported improved symptoms after the treatment."
Alternatives: "a meaningful number" or "a notable number".
Second, there was nothing to indicate whether 81percent was, in fact, a statistically significant number.
But amid the black and gold, I noticed a statistically significant number of people in full animal costumes.
I believe that smoking causes tumour growth because the medical community has told me; it's not because I myself have met a statistically significant number of lung cancer victims.
Interviewing a statistically significant number of consumers demands time and energy from the field team, and takes focus off solving tough business challenges these markets often present – such as overcoming the high operational costs in infrastructure-poor slums and villages, and getting consumers to change ingrained routines and mindsets to adopt new products.
Subjects attempt to guess correctly the symbols of cards hidden from their view under controlled conditions; a better-than-chance percentage of correct calls on a statistically significant number of trials is considered to be evidence of ESP.
On December 8, in a 4 3 decision, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that manual recounts should continue in all counties where a statistically significant number of undervotes were observed for the office of president.
PVTs, which are based on observed ballot-counting at a statistically significant number of polling stations, work particularly well with a mechanism for ensuring an honest vote count (or exposing a dishonest one) in circumstances that prevent monitors from observing every polling station.
Somewhere else, 500 people might be a statistically significant number, but at Google, the letter represents barely half of one percent of the company.
Mineral liberation studies on fine particulate systems require high resolution and fast examination of a (statistically) significant number of particles.
A statistically significant number of particles and volume of the composite were characterized, enabling a meaningful and realistic interpretation of the results.
If the interrogator could not identify the computer as inhuman in a statistically significant number of cases, then artificial intelligence had been achieved, he suggested.
