Queries such as database similarity searches return results satisfying certain properties of distances or scores. For domain
scientists, the absolute values of scores are seldom sufficient. Statistical significance or p-value of the result is a more useful criterion. This can be computed using an appropriate model of random objects. The problem
of computing p-values becomes more acute when queries have multiple components. In this case, the returned score is an aggregate
of individual scores. The simple way of calculating the p-value by enumerating all random possibilities fails for large database
and query sizes. We propose an efficient method to calculate the approximate p-value of a multi-attribute result when the
distribution of scores for the database objects is non-parametric. Experimental evaluation on large databases shows that our
method is practical, runs 5 orders of magnitude faster than the basic approach, and has an error of less than 5% in p-value
computation.