“trend toward significance”

According to the results of our study, rENE was an independent prognostic factor for DFS and showed trend toward significance for OS.

Finally, considering the single emotion conditions, even though the correlation was only significant in the disgust condition, the other conditions exhibited a close trend toward significance.

Conversely, no correlation was found using the more severe cutoff (OS, p = 0.1 and p = 0.2, respectively), although there was a detectable trend toward significance.

Five transparency indicators (funding disclosure, bias discussion, confounder consideration, protocol registration, reporting-guideline adherence) and five spin indicators (selective focus, unsupported efficacy claims, emphasis on benefits, recommendations despite nonsignificance, “trend toward significance” language) were coded dichotomously.

This is particularly important for the diverse double mutant phenotypes that appear to trend toward significance, but which may or may not reach statistical significance.