In statistical hypothesis testing, a result has statistical significance when a result at least as "extreme" would be very infrequent if the null hypothesis...
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A statistical hypothesis test is a method of statistical inference used to decide whether the data provide sufficient evidence to reject a particular hypothesis...
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(magazine), a magazine published by the Royal Statistical Society and the American Statistical Association Significance (policy debate), a stock issue in policy...
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Statistics (redirect from Statistical)
or social problem, it is conventional to begin with a statistical population or a statistical model to be studied. Populations can be diverse groups...
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Data dredging (redirect from Fishing for statistical significance)
their breakdown by some other variable. Conventional tests of statistical significance are based on the probability that a particular result would arise...
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significance is the practical importance of a treatment effect—whether it has a real genuine, palpable, noticeable effect on daily life. Statistical significance...
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P-value (redirect from Marginal significance level)
in order to quantify the statistical significance of a result, the result being the observed value of the chosen statistic T {\displaystyle T} . The...
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Analysis of variance (category Statistical tests)
example, in one-way, or single-factor ANOVA, statistical significance is tested for by comparing the F test statistic F = variance between treatments variance...
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Null hypothesis (category Statistical hypothesis testing)
statement being tested in a test of statistical significance is called the null hypothesis. The test of significance is designed to assess the strength...
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crafted in 2015-2016 the historic "American Statistical Association Statement on Statistical Significance and P-Values," edited by Ronald Wasserstein...
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association studies, genome-wide significance (abbreviated GWS) is a specific threshold for determining the statistical significance of a reported association...
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t-distribution – originally called Student's "z" – and "Student's test of statistical significance". Born in Canterbury, England the eldest son of Agnes Sealy Vidal...
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Replication crisis (category Statistical reliability)
might be very low statistical power on average. The same statistical test with the same significance level will have lower statistical power if the effect...
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Power (statistics) (redirect from Statistical power calculation)
the specific test that is used (including the choice of test statistic and significance level), the sample size (more data tends to provide more power)...
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Fisher's exact test (category Statistical tests for contingency tables)
Fisher's exact test (also Fisher-Irwin test) is a statistical significance test used in the analysis of contingency tables. Although in practice it is...
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Fielding error (section Statistical significance)
games. However, fans and analysts have questioned the usefulness and significance of errors as a metric for fielding skill. Notably, mental misjudgments...
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Standard deviation (category Statistical deviation and dispersion)
calculate standard error for a finite sample, and to determine statistical significance. When only a sample of data from a population is available, the...
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Significance, established in 2004, is a bimonthly print and digital magazine published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Statistical Society...
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Hidden Markov model (section Statistical significance)
of the above problems, it may also be interesting to ask about statistical significance. What is the probability that a sequence drawn from some null distribution...
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that can be observed with a sufficient degree of confidence or statistical significance. However, the exact threshold (level of decision) used to decide...
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Volcano plot (statistics) (category Statistical charts and diagrams)
a measure of the strength of a statistical signal, and y axis is related to a measure of the statistical significance of the signal. For example, in a...
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Statistical parametric mapping (SPM) is a statistical technique for examining differences in brain activity recorded during functional neuroimaging experiments...
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One- and two-tailed tests (category Statistical tests)
In statistical significance testing, a one-tailed test and a two-tailed test are alternative ways of computing the statistical significance of a parameter...
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Type I and type II errors (redirect from Level of significance)
determined by known, observable, causal processes. In statistical test theory, the notion of a statistical error is an integral part of hypothesis testing....
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Effect size (category Statistical hypothesis testing)
the significance level, or vice versa. Given a sufficiently large sample size, a non-null statistical comparison will always show a statistically significant...
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Misuse of p-values (category Statistical hypothesis testing)
that significance level (which however does not prove that the null hypothesis is true). From a Fisherian statistical testing approach to statistical inferences...
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Sequence alignment (section Assessment of significance)
Methods of statistical significance estimation for gapped sequence alignments are available in the literature. Statistical significance indicates the...
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the level of statistical significance. To test for positive autocorrelation at significance α {\textstyle \alpha } , the test statistic d {\textstyle...
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predictive power. Conditional power is the probability of observing statistical significance given the observed data assuming the treatment effect parameter...
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Misuse of statistics (redirect from Statistical fallacy)
gain of the perpetrator. When the statistical reason involved is false or misapplied, this constitutes a statistical fallacy. The consequences of such...
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