Barely Significant
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“borderline significant”

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p=0.09

Listed by Hankins (2013) · Otte et al. (2022)

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The effect was more pronounced in high-transmission strata (PE = 56%, 95% CI: 36.3–69.5; NNT = 53), with incidence falling from 0.03 to 0.01 cases per child-month, compared with a smaller and borderline significant reduction in low-transmission strata (PE = 30%, 95% CI: −1.4–51.4).
Although the current study could not conclusively establish that for breast patients, tamoxifen treatment significantly decreases the risk of subsequent meningioma compared with non-tamoxifen treatment, the results were borderline significant, with a direction (protective role) consistent with their findings.
To reduce the risk of type 1 errors (as there were over 100 potential inferential tests that could be conducted), the p value for a significant result was set at 0.01 and a staged approach was often applied that began with testing larger combined variables and only testing the subgroups of borderline significant results.
When using the frequent/infrequent risk classification, there was a borderline significant reduction with tiotropium in the number of COPD exacerbations compared with salmeterol in patients classified as frequent exacerbators (RR 0.90; 95% CI 0.81–1.01; p = 0.0668; adjusted annual rates = 0.79 and 0.87 for tiotropium and salmeterol, respectively) and also in the number of COPD exacerbations compared with salmeterol in patients classified as infrequent exacerbators (RR 0.88; 95% CI 0.75–1.02; p = 0.0881; adjusted annual rates = 0.48 and 0.55 for tiotropium and salmeterol, respectively) (Fig. 2 ).