Statistical significance

Quality:

Statistical significance - statistical assessment of whether observations reflect a pattern rather than just chance. Article “Statistical significance” in English Wikipedia has 64.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 80 references and 14 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.42 points.

This article has the best quality in Portuguese Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Statistical significance”, its content was written by 255 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 918 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 748 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3558 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2641 in December 2002
• Global: #3029 in December 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4138 in April 2015
• Global: #6173 in April 2015

There are 30 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Portuguese (pt) Significância estatística		72.6369
2	English (en) Statistical significance		64.8859
3	Chinese (zh) 显著性差异		57.301
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Statistisk signifikans		48.3528
5	German (de) Statistische Signifikanz		28.9543
6	Korean (ko) 통계적 유의성		28.7818
7	Persian (fa) معنی‌داری آماری		28.2941
8	Simple English (simple) Statistical significance		27.8104
9	Polish (pl) Istotność statystyczna		25.7542
10	Arabic (ar) دلالة إحصائية		24.4361

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Statistical significance		9 722 222
2	German (de) Statistische Signifikanz		2 949 584
3	Spanish (es) Significación estadística		1 589 122
4	Japanese (ja) 有意		1 199 530
5	Chinese (zh) 显著性差异		714 684
6	Portuguese (pt) Significância estatística		637 697
7	Russian (ru) Статистическая значимость		593 772
8	Dutch (nl) Significantie		465 596
9	Italian (it) Significatività		423 619
10	Swedish (sv) Signifikans		394 157

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Statistical significance		6 507
2	German (de) Statistische Signifikanz		1 783
3	Chinese (zh) 显著性差异		1 120
4	Russian (ru) Статистическая значимость		703
5	Spanish (es) Significación estadística		482
6	Portuguese (pt) Significância estatística		432
7	Japanese (ja) 有意		378
8	Norwegian (no) Statistisk signifikans		332
9	French (fr) Signification statistique		327
10	Polish (pl) Istotność statystyczna		210

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Statistical significance		255
2	German (de) Statistische Signifikanz		164
3	Italian (it) Significatività		45
4	Dutch (nl) Significantie		45
5	French (fr) Signification statistique		44
6	Russian (ru) Статистическая значимость		40
7	Hebrew (he) מובהקות סטטיסטית		36
8	Japanese (ja) 有意		35
9	Chinese (zh) 显著性差异		33
10	Portuguese (pt) Significância estatística		32

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Korean (ko) 통계적 유의성		1
2	Portuguese (pt) Significância estatística		1
3	Vietnamese (vi) Ý nghĩa thống kê		1
4	Arabic (ar) دلالة إحصائية		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Statistik önəmlilik		0
6	Catalan (ca) Significació estadística		0
7	Czech (cs) Statistická významnost		0
8	German (de) Statistische Signifikanz		0
9	Greek (el) Στατιστική σημαντικότητα		0
10	English (en) Statistical significance		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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