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Slot: statistical_significance_qualifier

Description: A statement qualifier that categorizes an association's evidence by statistical significance into coarse bands, as a categorical companion to the numeric 'p value' and 'adjusted p value' slots. It applies only to assessments derived from a quantitative significance statistic (raw p-value, multiple-testing-adjusted p-value, or q-value/FDR), and MUST NOT encode ordinal study-stage, evidence-tier, or confidence-level labels (e.g. clinical trial phases) that are not statistical-significance statements.

Notes: Enforced via a class rule on `association`: this qualifier may only be set when 'p value' or 'adjusted p value' is also populated (the numeric slots remain authoritative). Bands use conventional defaults (alpha = 0.05); when a source's cutoffs differ, place the value in the closest band and always also populate the numeric slot(s).

Domain: Association
Range: StatisticalSignificanceQualifierEnum

Inheritance

Applicable Classes

Name Description Modifies Slot
Association A typed association between two entities, supported by evidence no

Example values

Slot Name Value
statistical_significance_qualifier very_strongly_significant
statistical_significance_qualifier strongly_significant
statistical_significance_qualifier significant
statistical_significance_qualifier suggestive
statistical_significance_qualifier not_significant

LinkML Source

name: statistical significance qualifier
description: A statement qualifier that categorizes an association's evidence by statistical
  significance into coarse bands, as a categorical companion to the numeric 'p value'
  and 'adjusted p value' slots. It applies only to assessments derived from a quantitative
  significance statistic (raw p-value, multiple-testing-adjusted p-value, or q-value/FDR),
  and MUST NOT encode ordinal study-stage, evidence-tier, or confidence-level labels
  (e.g. clinical trial phases) that are not statistical-significance statements.
notes:
- 'Enforced via a class rule on `association`: this qualifier may only be set when
  ''p value'' or ''adjusted p value'' is also populated (the numeric slots remain
  authoritative).'
- Bands use conventional defaults (alpha = 0.05); when a source's cutoffs differ,
  place the value in the closest band and always also populate the numeric slot(s).
examples:
- value: very_strongly_significant
- value: strongly_significant
- value: significant
- value: suggestive
- value: not_significant
in_subset:
- translator_minimal
from_schema: https://w3id.org/biolink/vocab/
is_a: statement qualifier
domain: association
alias: statistical_significance_qualifier
domain_of:
- association
range: StatisticalSignificanceQualifierEnum