Misuse of statistics in medical and sports science research is common and may lead to detrimental consequences to healthcare. Many authors, editors and peer reviewers of medical papers will not have ...

This paper presents and illustrates a simple statistical test for judging whether one of two materials or treatments is better than the other. The data to which the test is applied consist of paired ...

Beta risk is the probability that a false null hypothesis will be accepted by a statistical test.

Alpha risk is the risk in a statistical test of rejecting a null hypothesis when it is actually true.

Multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) is an extension of the commonly used analysis of variance (ANOVA) method, allowing statistical comparisons across three or more groups of data and involving ...

A new method, R-scape, tests whether observed sequence covariation supports a conserved secondary structure in RNA. The program finds no evidence for previously proposed conserved secondary ...

STATISTICAL TEST SUITE OF FIPS PUB 140-2 In the documentation of FIPS PUB 140-2, statistical random number generator tests are defined as follows: If statistical random number generator tests are ...

This study applies an old, though little used statistical test of authorship-a word-length frequency test-to show that Twain almost certainly did not write these 10 letters. The statistical analysis ...