The phrase "average a significant" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be intended to convey the idea of calculating an average that is significant in some context, but it is incomplete as it stands.
Example: "To understand the data better, we need to average a significant number of samples."
Alternatives: "calculate a meaningful average" or "compute a substantial average".
Yet switching to entrepreneurship meant, on average, a significant reduction in income not observed in the other groups.
The rate of response was eleven to sixteen per cent across the three waves — about twelve hundred scholars on average — a significant sample, as statisticians would say, and the responses seem reliably random.
The Maraba cooperative produced 138 tons of specialty coffee this year, its third, and remitted about $82 to each of the cooperative's 1,568 members on average, a significant sum in dollar-a-day territory, and one that is expected to grow.
While continuing to play excellent defense, he is leading the National League in numerous offensive categories, including batting average, hits, triples, multihit games and home batting average — a significant statistic for a team considering locking up a player for the long term.
Technical analysis considers a break below this average a significant signal that the market is moving to a new trough in performance levels.
In column (1) we show that countries with a better business environment have on average a significant lower share of labor allocated to small plants.
When analyzing log transformed time-averages, a significant interaction between genetic diversity and Brachionus presence/absence on colony size was detected.
Those in supported housing where physical conditions were rated below average displayed a significant increase in maladaptive behaviour over the nine-month study period compared to those in housing of average or above average quality.
Proflowers.com has seen sales soar to double or even triple the usual average when a significant number of visitors consult the adviser, Ms. Nappi said.
Verbal and written feedback from patients has been largely very positive and measures of depression and anxiety on average show a significant reduction following the course.
What saved the average from a significant drop was the tremendous spurt by Origin Energy.
