“approaching significance”

Decrease from 0 in Visuospatial activities was approaching significance at the CDR 1 and CDR 2 scores.

This has been a topic of discussion in the social sciences, with some scholars suggesting that “approaching significance” can be used to interpret the marginal significance (e.g., Blake & Gangestad, 2020 ; Salvador et al., 2020 ), while others argue that the established statistical significance standard should be applied and that findings of marginal significance are not statistically significant (e.g., Olsson-Collentine et al., 2019 ).

With a p -value approaching significance, we explored within-subject effects with Greenhouse–Geisser corrections, finding no significant effect of group status (PD vs. controls) on vector means (F = 0.946, p = 0.450, η p 2 = 0.450) ( Figure 3 ).

Demographics did not differ between first-time and repeat IVF patients except for FSH, which was higher in the repeat patients and number of embryos transferred, which was higher in the repeat patients with a p-value approaching significance.

This is very much in keeping with the weight of reviewer opinion in our experience, wherein we have regularly seen authors chastised by reviewers for describing effects with p = .07 or p = .08 as ‘approaching significance’ or ‘marginally significant’.

Finite constructions There was a main effect of correctness approaching significance at the first ROI, and significant at the second and third ROIs [first ROI: F 1(1,37) = 3.489; p = 0.07; F 2(1,9) = 4.257; p = 0.046; Second ROI: F 1(1,37) = 32.093; p < 0.001; F 2(1,9) = 27.5; p < 0.001; Third ROI: F 1(1,37) = 13.208; p < 0.001; F 2(1,9) = 7.121; p = 0.001].

The results found no significant relation, or any relation approaching significance, between these two forms of time judgment.

While improvements in color vision abnormalities did not reach statistical significance, the eculizumab group demonstrated an 11.40% lower incidence of color vision abnormalities at 6 months post-treatment compared to the rituximab group ( P = 0.065), approaching significance.

Although only approaching significance, and similar to comparing NCI and DEM females, having more sons was related to reduced performance than having more daughters in MCI, but not in NCI females on the WMS Delay Recall task (model: F (7,284) = 21.890, p < 0.001, R 2 = 0.350, adjusted R 2 = 0.334; β = −0.169 , p = 0.084, sr 2 = 0.007; Fig. 3d ).

Though this value was unchanged statistically, PAD patients may exhibit a decreased ability to generate this moment as indicated by the decreased knee extensor moment which was approaching significance.

Precisely, we found a correlation approaching significance between mental imagery scores and the circuit.

While we did not observe statistically significant differences in these markers, we did note trends towards increased expression in GH-treated animals for all markers, approaching significance for erbB3 and p75 expression.

It occurred in 10 of 14 knees (71.43%) with recurrence and 13 of 31 knees (41.94%) without (χ 2 test, p = 0.066, OR = 3.46), approaching significance.

Between-group analysis of molecular outputs used a general linear mixed model (GLMM), including dam as a random factor and the following predictors: fixed factors (sex, group) and co-variates (maternal IL-6 and TNFα), with p-values ≤ 0.05 considered statistically significant and 0.05 < p ≤ 0.075 highlighted as approaching significance.

o At times, non-significant findings with “approaching significance” are over-interpreted.

However, TSH levels increased from 1.05 mIU/L (0.87–1.58) in Q1 to 1.39 mIU/L (1.06–1.92) in Q4 (P = 0.068), approaching significance and suggesting a potential link between fatty liver and hypothyroidism.

Consistent with this, FVB/n mice possessed a lower proportion (approaching significance) of CD71 (+) i.c.TCRβ (+) proliferating DN3 cells 18 (Fig. 2C ), that expressed significantly lower levels of CD5 (Fig. 2D ), a recognised marker of TCR signal strength 19 , than similar cells from C57BL/6 mice, suggesting that inefficient β-selection may be due to weak preTCR signalling in FVB/n animals.

It is notable that survivor health professionals asked more patients about DV at a level approaching significance.

However, the observed p -value (0.08) approaching significance indicates the possibility of an association that might not have been detected due to the low event rates of stillbirth across the included studies.

Alcohol dependence was not found to be associated with rs9370822 in our study but association with rs9370822 cannot be ruled out as we only analysed 231 alcohol dependent cases and the p -value was approaching significance at both the allele and genotype level (Tables 1 and 2 ).

ABL1 was not found to be significant but was approaching significance.

In the same direction, other research has shown that a low digit ratio is associated with anger, hostility, physical aggression (and verbal aggression approaching significance), total sensation seeking, thrill and adventure seeking [ 76 ], less precautionary behavior [ 36 , 37 ], and with risk taking in women [ 77 ].

All background diseases show no significant differences between the 2 groups, except for diabetes mellitus, which had a higher prevalence in the non-progressor group ( P -value of 0.072, approaching significance).

Increasing isocenter distance from the DREZ was also associated with recurrence, with an HR of 1.17 (CI: 0.96 to 1.43, p = 0.13), approaching significance.

In this model, a pulse pressure of 60–70 ​mmHg (PP 3 ) showed significant increase in the risk for cardiovascular mortality, with highest pulse pressure category [(>70 ​mmHg (PP 4 )] approaching significance (P ​< ​0.1).