diferenças mínimas significantes existentes

English translation: minimal but significant differences

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Portuguese term or phrase:diferenças mínimas significantes existentes
English translation:minimal but significant differences
Entered by: Sheryle Oliver

11:46 Jul 19, 2012
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Portuguese term or phrase: diferenças mínimas significantes existentes
Estabelecer as diferenças mínimas significantes existentes ou não entre os grupos.
Andre Damasceno
Brazil
Local time: 15:41
minimal but significant differences (that may or may not) exist
Explanation:
For example, it is important to establish the minimal but significant differences that exist between the groups.

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Or to use a more colloquial, Anglo-Saxon term, /slight but significant differences.../
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Sheryle Oliver
Brazil
Local time: 15:41
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Summary of answers provided
5minimal but significant differences (that may or may not) exist
Sheryle Oliver
4minute significant differences that exist
Marcelo González
3minimum important/significant differences that exist/existing or non-existing minimum important/
liz askew


  

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26 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
minimum important/significant differences that exist/existing or non-existing minimum important/


Explanation:
significant differences

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Note added at 28 mins (2012-07-19 12:15:24 GMT)
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apologies

that should be

minimal

not minimum


don't know what happened there!

liz askew
United Kingdom
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
minimal but significant differences (that may or may not) exist


Explanation:
For example, it is important to establish the minimal but significant differences that exist between the groups.

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Note added at 7 hrs (2012-07-19 19:30:41 GMT)
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Or to use a more colloquial, Anglo-Saxon term, /slight but significant differences.../

Sheryle Oliver
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22 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
minute significant differences that exist


Explanation:
I think this sounds more natural.

Minute | Define Minute at Dictionary.com
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/minute
extremely small, as in size, amount, extent, or degree: minute differences. 2. of minor importance; insignificant; trifling. 3. attentive to or concerned with even the ...

Depending on the context, perhaps another option would be "smallest significant differences that exist."

I hope this helps!

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Lecture 1 – Basic Statistics
www.stat.purdue.edu/~colvertn/courses/stat502/.../Topic 09....
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Minimum Significant Differences. Because of the structure of the confidence interval, zero will be included in the interval if and only if the difference in means is ...

"minimum significant differences"
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In considering this again (and seeing the results from the search above), perhaps the best option would be "minimum significant differences that exist."

diferenças mínimas significantes existentes = minimum significant differences that exist

Marcelo González
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