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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 can I determine if there's a statistically significant difference between two averages?

I'm writing a benchmark program in C# and Java as a first assignment for a CS class. We're supposed to write some kind of report about our methods and results from the benchmark, and I'd like to add a …
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