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title: Filter on Significance
slug: filter-on-significance
createdAt: 2026-04-27T07:46:46.505Z
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Filter on significance allows you to select only edges for which the significance-value was found higher or same as the set cutoff. The significance value, which is the -log(P-Value), reflects how certain we are that the edge is reproduceable across all datasets included to construct the network. The significance filter can be implemented for network Mode Distance-Neighbors and Direct Connection. 

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By network construction for Mavatar Discovery, only significant edges (P \< 0.05) are included. Therefore, the significance filter is only necessary if you wish to apply a more stringent cutoff.
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