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Sig - disambiguation

'Sig', as a word contraction for 'statistical significance', has two main uses. On the one hand, as a p-value (p) (also referred to as an "exact level of significance"). On the other hand, as the level of significance chosen by a researcher using Fisher's approach to tests of significance (often contracted as "p" or "α"). As such uses create confusion, recommendations for sorting out such confusion are also given.

	contraction for	used by	recommendation
sig	p-value	SPSS	rewrite as 'p' instead
sig, s	level of significance (Fisher)	Perezgonzalez	use 's' or 'sig' instead of 'p' or 'α'

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