Imagine that a researcher publishes the results from a study,and the results indicate that there is a statistically significant association between sleep deprivation and coronary disease.What does it mean to say that the results are statistically significant

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Statistically significant means that the probability of the results being due to chance is very low, typically less than 5%. Thus, it suggests that the association between sleep deprivation and coronary disease is real and not just a result of random variation in the data. However, it does not necessarily mean that sleep deprivation causes coronary disease or that it has a larger effect than other factors.

Imagine That a Researcher Publishes the Results from a Study,and