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<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">A test of the reliability of estimate of [[statistical]] parameters.</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">Such tests proceed by assuming that the estimates are not significant and are those to be expected from sampling a particular [[population]], and then, from the properties of the population, determining the probabilities of such occurrences. The hypothesis (that the estimates are not significant) is rejected only when an observational result is found to be significant, that is, when the obtained result belongs to an objectively specified unfavorable class ([[critical region]] or [[rejection region]]) having a fixed, small [[probability]] of occurrence in [[random]] samples from the hypothesized population. When the result falls in the [[acceptance region]], it is not significant and the hypothesis cannot be rejected. The boundaries of the classes are set in such a way that the total probability (unity) is appropriately divided between them, say 0.95, 0.05 or 0.99, 0.01. The probability assigned to the critical region, commonly either 0.05 or 0.01, is called the [[significance level]]. <br/>''See'' [[chi- square test]], [[Student's t-test]], [[analysis of variance]].</div><br/> </div> | <div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">A test of the reliability of estimate of [[statistical]] parameters.</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">Such tests proceed by assuming that the estimates are not significant and are those to be expected from sampling a particular [[population]], and then, from the properties of the population, determining the probabilities of such occurrences. The hypothesis (that the estimates are not significant) is rejected only when an observational result is found to be significant, that is, when the obtained result belongs to an objectively specified unfavorable class ([[critical region]] or [[rejection region]]) having a fixed, small [[probability]] of occurrence in [[random]] samples from the hypothesized population. When the result falls in the [[acceptance region]], it is not significant and the hypothesis cannot be rejected. The boundaries of the classes are set in such a way that the total probability (unity) is appropriately divided between them, say 0.95, 0.05 or 0.99, 0.01. The probability assigned to the critical region, commonly either 0.05 or 0.01, is called the [[significance level]]. <br/>''See'' [[chi-square test|chi- square test]], [[Student's t-test]], [[analysis of variance]].</div><br/> </div> | ||
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Latest revision as of 17:52, 25 April 2012
significance test[edit | edit source]
A test of the reliability of estimate of statistical parameters.
Such tests proceed by assuming that the estimates are not significant and are those to be expected from sampling a particular population, and then, from the properties of the population, determining the probabilities of such occurrences. The hypothesis (that the estimates are not significant) is rejected only when an observational result is found to be significant, that is, when the obtained result belongs to an objectively specified unfavorable class (critical region or rejection region) having a fixed, small probability of occurrence in random samples from the hypothesized population. When the result falls in the acceptance region, it is not significant and the hypothesis cannot be rejected. The boundaries of the classes are set in such a way that the total probability (unity) is appropriately divided between them, say 0.95, 0.05 or 0.99, 0.01. The probability assigned to the critical region, commonly either 0.05 or 0.01, is called the significance level.
See chi- square test, Student's t-test, analysis of variance.
See chi- square test, Student's t-test, analysis of variance.