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Message posted by melissa ethington on December 18, 2000 at 12:00 AM (ET)

In a statistical report, what is sig. and what does it represent?

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Message posted by Phil on December 18, 2000 at 12:00 AM (ET)

Two guesses, depending on context:

"sigma" which usually means standard deviation.(In which case values could be most anything greater than zero)

"significance" or P-value. The probability level at which a hypothesis test for significance would signal a Type I error. (in this case the values would always be between [0,1]

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