There’s something slightly oxymoronic about the phrase “false positive.” When you’re positive, you’re supposed to be sure that what you’re saying is true. As when you have the support of solid ...

David R. Anderson, Kenneth P. Burnham and William L. Thompson This paper presents a review and critique of statistical null hypothesis testing in ecological studies in general, and wildlife studies in ...

Current scientific techniques in genomics and image processing routinely produce hypothesis testing problems with hundreds or thousands of cases to consider simultaneously. This poses new difficulties ...

Multiple hypothesis testing is an important part of many high-throughput data analysis workflows. A common objective is to maximize the number of discoveries while controlling the expected fraction of ...

Objection: Natural variability is the null hypothesis; there must be compelling evidence of an anthropogenic CO2 warming effect before we take it seriously. Answer: The null hypothesis is a ...

Successful completion of this course demonstrate your achievement of the following learning outcomes for the MS-DS program: Define a composite hypothesis and the level of significance for a test with ...

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