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“marginally significant”

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Listed by Hankins (2013) · Otte et al. (2022)

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Receipt of the cash transfer also had a protective, but marginally significant effect on AGYW’s sexual debut (RR: 0.94; 95% CI: 0.88, 1.01), likelihood of having a sexual partner (RR: 0.94; 95% CI: 0.88, 1.00), and likelihood of having more than one sexual partner (RR: 0.84; 95% CI: 0.70, 1.01) across all time points.
Exceptions included ‘satisfaction with tasks’ where there was no significant difference between groups, and ‘level of extrinsic motivation’ where workers in the previous PBF group scored higher (marginally significant).
I have a few requests: 1) The authors should probably refrain from referring to "marginally significant" results as this is technically a violation of frequentist statistical approaches from most points of view, although this is an admittedly minor issue. 2) 2)More importantly, it would be useful for the authors to provide both confidence intervals on point estimates and effect size information.
Results The estimation results of ( Eq 1 ) for the three birth cohort groups (the older, middle and younger birth cohorts) summarized in Table 2 suggest a steepening of the SES-mortality gradient with an increase in the year of birth: There is no significant SES-mortality gradient for the older cohorts, a marginally significant gradient for the middle cohorts, and a significant and strong negative gradient for the younger cohorts.
The results of the evening group suggest that participants with an intervening night’s sleep between Session 1 (i.e., training session) and later sessions showed a numerical trend of improved ID performance in posttest2, and a marginally significant improvement in posttest3, compared with their ID performance in the initial posttest.