test statistic
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftestandstatistic
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test
noun[C]
uk/test/us/test/
a way of discovering, by questions or practical activities, what someone knows, or what someone or something can do or ...
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statistic
noun
uk/stəˈtɪs.tɪk/us/stəˈtɪs.tɪk/
information based on a study of the number of times something happens or is present, or other ...
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(Definition oftestandstatisticfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Theteststatisticis designed to detect hidden periodicities in the data with random amplitude modulation.
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The overallteststatisticcan be partitioned into three subtests, each testing a particular variance component.
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One of the matrices was permutated 999 times to calculate a probability for theteststatistic.
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Most chromosomes show very flat likelihood ratioteststatisticprofiles (data not shown).
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The empirical distribution of the likelihood ratioteststatisticwas generated in the same manner for each censoring situation under the null hypothesis.
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The model fit is most commonly evaluated with the maximum likelihood method yielding a chi-squareteststatistic.
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The null is rejected if theteststatisticis absolutely large (say, greater than 1.96).
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Safe statistical detection of nonlinearities of the suggested type would require either a hitherto unknownteststatisticor an implausibly long sample.
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Duration of illness for patient groups was compared using the tteststatistic.
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On choosing ateststatisticin multivariate analysis of variance.
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The drought and eruption contingency made the largest contribution to theteststatistic, whereas the no-drought and no-eruption contingency made the smallest contribution.
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Theteststatisticof the regression coefficient of the neutral cluster was still significant, but the magnitude was negligible compared with the other two clusters.
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Individual differences are typically banished to the error term of theteststatistic, and thus much information is lost.
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Statistical power is determined by counting the number of runs out of 100 replicates which have ateststatisticgreater than an empirical threshold value.
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Of course, large values of theteststatisticare critical for the null hypothesis.
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The null hypothesis (17) is rejected for large values of the correspondingteststatistic.
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Theteststatisticfor (8) is approximately #distributed with k-1 degrees of freedom.
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The main effect of using cofactors is the reduction in the residual variance leading to a higherteststatistic.
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It is therefore suggested that these terms simply be omitted under such circumstances, which will not harm ^ theteststatistic.
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Usually, more than oneteststatisticis obtained in a meta-analysis related to a particular evidence linkage.
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