null distribution

collocation in English

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null
adjective
uk
/nʌl/
us
/nʌl/
having no ...
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distribution
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌdɪs.trɪˈbjuː.ʃən/
us
/ˌdɪs.trɪˈbjuː.ʃən/
the process of giving things out to several people, or spreading or ...
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To maintain thenulldistributionof the ranks, tied individuals can be ranked at random.
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One hundred replicates were performed to obtain anulldistributionof tree length differences.
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With a parametric voxelbased statistic, thenulldistributionis generally used to specify a threshold by using a t-table.
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The null hypothesis of zero between-group difference in mean power of response was tested by comparing the coefficient to its non-parametrically ascertainednulldistribution.
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After each resampling, the correlation index was computed and itsnulldistributionestablished.
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They established the asymptoticnulldistributionof the test process, thus providing an approximation to find the appropriate threshold.
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However, just what this realisticnulldistributionshould be is unclear.
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A common strategy is to approximate thenulldistributionwith a scaled random variable.
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The approach is adaptable to other null distributions and applications.
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The extreme-value approach is easily adapted to other null distributions and applications where it can offer similar advantages to those we have identified.
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