"substantive significance" is a correct phrase to use in written English.
You can use it to describe changes or developments of substance in any context. For example, "His findings had substantive significance in the field of medicine, leading to tremendous advances in treating various conditions."
Examining many cases can produce a kind of anti-parsimony by producing models where everything is statistically significant, yet little is said about substantive significance.
Obviously raw numbers matter less than substantive significance.
Statistical significance is an important criterion for evaluating survey findings; however, substantive significance has an equal weight.
Afterward, the USLO explained to Oksenberg that it had noticed the insertion of "chengren" but decided not to inform Washington, because Chinese officials used "several English-Chinese dictionaries" to argue that there was "no substantive significance" to the new translation.
The current study analyses both the statistical and the substantive significance of gender differences in customer expectations and perceptions of corporate responsibility, also examining the influence of age and education.
The paper introduces the use of a standardized measure of effect size for analysing the substantive significance of gender differences in customer expectations and perceptions of corporate social responsibility.
The interest of Locke's account lies in the way he combines the structure of a theory of first occupancy with an account of the substantive moral significance of labor.
We caution against the mechanical application of statistical tests, however, and advocate for searching for substantive and meaningful significance, as well as statistical significance.
Mr. Brown's victory, in a special election for the seat formerly held by Edward M. Kennedy, was full of substantive and symbolic significance, costing Democrats their 60-seat Senate majority and threatening the passage of the national health care bill that Mr. Kennedy had once championed.
Roe recognized the right of a woman to make certain fundamental decisions affecting her destiny and confirmed once more that the protection of liberty under the Due Process Clause has a substantive dimension of fundamental significance in defining the rights of the person...
The earliest influential discussions of what we now call supervenience in ethics focused on its significance for substantive ethical investigation.
