Significance
Encyclopedia
Significance can refer to:
with purpose and importance
with purpose and importance
- Meaning
- In semiotics, the meaning assigned to a signMeaning (semiotics)In semiotics, the meaning of a sign is its place in a sign relation, in other words, the set of roles that it occupies within a given sign relation. This statement holds whether sign is taken to mean a sign type or a sign token...
- In semiotics, the meaning assigned to a sign
- Significant figuresSignificant figuresThe significant figures of a number are those digits that carry meaning contributing to its precision. This includes all digits except:...
or significant digits, the precision of a numerical value - Significance (policy debate)Significance (policy debate)Significance is a stock issue in policy debate which establishes the importance of the harms in the status quo. As a stock issue has fallen out of favor with the debate community almost all debaters and judges now believe that any plan which is preferable to the status quo is...
, a stock issue in policy debate - Statistical significanceStatistical significanceIn statistics, a result is called statistically significant if it is unlikely to have occurred by chance. The phrase test of significance was coined by Ronald Fisher....
, the probability that a result is not due to chance - Significance (magazine), (2004-), a magazine published by the Royal Statistical Society.