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Statistical significance is a characteristic of a statistic viewed in light of a null hypothesis and a given significance level. It reflects whether the statistic belongs to the rejection region (is statistically significant) or the acceptance region (is not statistically significant).

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How to check if a value doesn't appear by chance with respect to a distribution?

The easiest way is to convert your distribution to a density, and calculate a one tailed p-value by integrating. #Original OPs code mean=100; sd=15 x <- seq(-4,4,length=100)*sd + mean hx <- dnorm(x …
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Adjusting the confidence level after the experiment

The short answer is no. A big no-no is going back and re-adjusting your confidence intervals post-hoc (i.e. after you have done the experiment). See for example:http://blog.minitab.com/blog/michelle-p …
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