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approaching significance

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p=0.09

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In the tumoral compartment, although a statistically significant difference in the density of CAFs was found only in A-SMA+S100+ CAFs (being higher in classic ILC), an “approaching significance” or a trend was seen with Thy-1+, Total FAP+, FAP+ only and FAP+S100+ CAFs being higher in pleomorphic subtype.
Multivariable analysis with adjustment to age and gender revealed that lower baseline Hgb was the only significant predictor of response to IVIS treatment ( P ≤ .0001), while patients who received 1 course versus 2 or more courses ( P = .07) and those who received IVIS while inpatient versus outpatient or both ( P = .06) had results approaching significance.
The only data approaching significance is the comparison between T1 and T2, indicating that the starting point and days immediately after the initiative may be when the intervention has the most impact, reinforcing research that acute sessions of physical activity have short-term benefits on behaviour and cognitive functioning in youths struggling to focus attention and control impulsive actions ( Tomporowski, 2003 ).
Similarly, when responding to the self-name, responses were significantly faster when the name was accompanied by the self-face (Target Name-Distractor Face congruence) relative to a friend’s face, t (33) = 3.19, p <.017, d = .289, or a stranger’s face, t (33) = 2.40, p = .022, d = .217 (closely approaching significance at.017; Target Name-Distractor Face incongruence), suggesting that the presence of the self-face facilitated self-name processing.
Poisson log-linear regression demonstrated sex ( χ 2 =19.9, p <0.001), race ( χ 2 =39.5, p <0.001), diabetes ( χ 2 =10.1, p =0.001), smoking ( χ 2 =18.5, p <0.001), hypertension ( χ 2 =16.4, p <0.001), age ( χ 2 =102.4, p <0.001), and BMI ( χ 2 =4.7, p =0.029) as significant predictors of revision, with steroid use ( χ 2 =3.5, p =0.061) and functional status ( χ 2 =3.7, p =0.055) approaching significance.
This has been a topic of discussion in the social sciences, with some scholars suggesting that “approaching significance” can be used to interpret the marginal significance (e.g., Blake & Gangestad, 2020 ; Salvador et al., 2020 ), while others argue that the established statistical significance standard should be applied and that findings of marginal significance are not statistically significant (e.g., Olsson-Collentine et al., 2019 ).