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statistical power

noun/stəˈtɪstɪkl ˈpaʊə/

C2CEFR level
80/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

The probability that a test will detect a real effect of a given size if one genuinely exists.

We ran a power analysis and needed 12,000 users per variant to reach 80% power.

Topic: Data & analytics in Business English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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