Significant patterns of meaning do emerge from the mists.
But the researchers did identify significant patterns: Men have a harder time spending money.
The results were necessarily imprecise, but statistically significant patterns still emerged, the authors said.
You need software, algorithms, and - at the real cutting edge - machine learning - to spit out significant patterns that can then be used to make decisions", says Symes.
To identify suspected sources, scientists painstakingly question victims about what they have eaten, searching for statistically significant patterns.
report say theirs is the most comprehensive look at the problem, and the first to search not only for the number of people with hepatitis, but also for significant patterns within those numbers.
A component of the new computer information systems being emphasized by Mr. Poindexter's office are "data mining" techniques to scan through vast collections of computer data, which may include text, images, sound and other computer data, and find significant patterns.
As David Colander, an economist at Middlebury College, notes, researchers are rewarded -- with job offers, endowed chairs and prizes -- for finding statistically significant patterns that can be published in prestigious journals.
We did identify two statistically significant patterns in the experiment.
Significant patterns were observed at 170 and >4000 m.
The results revealed significant patterns across the disciplines.
