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Discover LudwigThe phrase "almost significant" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is nearly important or noteworthy, but not quite there.
Example: "The results of the study were almost significant, indicating a potential trend that warrants further investigation."
Alternatives: "nearly important" or "marginally relevant".
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Storage medium and interaction between time and storage medium were almost significant on the 95% significance level.
The levels of significance were P < 0.05 (almost significant) and P < 0.01 (significant).
The TDI score appeared almost significant a predictor of CHD when used as a dependent variable in logistic regression analysis (P =.08).
Obtaining an almost significant p-value with only 17 observations is remarkable, even more so considering that there is one clear outlier (Romania).
Moreover, in Fig. 4 percentage count for observed frequencies in psychiatric disorders in parents × frequency interaction was almost significant (partial χ2 = 6.94; df = 2; P = 0.05).
Relative to 'reasonably unsafe', we find a positive (almost) significant parameter estimate for 'reasonably safe' (0.1510) and for 'very safe' (0.1889).
In PSG recordings we found almost significant (p=0.05), tendencies towards less fast arousals and more N3 sleep among migraineurs in the interictal phase than among controls.
Results suggest that people with EHT, in comparison with normotensive, show significantly higher levels of anxiety and anger-hostility coping thoughts as well as an almost significant trend toward a higher frequency of hostile and physically aggressive thoughts.
The CSI was neither associated with household size nor household head's level of education or age, but gender was almost significant (p = 0.07) - female-headed agro-pastoral households trended toward having a higher CSI.
Table 2 shows a hierarchical model tested including more two significant interactions (P < 0.05) and one almost significant (P = 0.06) ("headache type in child × frequency"; "psychiatric comorbidity in child × frequency" and "psychiatric disorders in parents × frequency").
Moreover, we found an interaction almost significant between psychiatric comorbidity in child and frequency of the crises, and a significant interaction between psychiatric comorbidity in parents and frequency of attacks in children (Figs. 3, 4).
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