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- noun statistics
Student's t-test
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Of the sixteen funds studied, only one fund manager evidenced skill based on a statistical test (the t-test) which determines if the fund's outperformance was really attributable to skill (with a 95 percent or higher probability) or if it could be explained by luck.
Dan Solin: Morningstar's Fund Manager of the Year: A Slippery Slope Dan Solin 2012
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You should have read my last post where I wrote that it was a t-test of the "difference between periods."
From Far Left to Libertarian, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Statistical analysis was performed by the Kaplan-Meier survival curve and paired Student's t-test.
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One-way ANOVA and Student's t-test (two-tailed) were performed to examine the relationship between coping strategies, quality-of-life, and disease severity.
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Of the sixteen funds studied, only one fund manager evidenced skill based on a statistical test (the t-test) which determines if the fund's outperformance was really attributable to skill (with a 95 percent or higher probability) or if it could be explained by luck.
Dan Solin: Morningstar's Fund Manager of the Year: A Slippery Slope Dan Solin 2012
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Someone should do a t-test or something to see if there is a statistical difference
Waldo Jaquith - Payday lending votes and related contributions. 2007
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Also, t-tests should only be used when the scale of measurement employed in assigning 'numbers' is interval or ratio scale data; yours appears to be ordinal.um.. the t-test was applied to the majority numbers themselves, not the rankings derived from them.
MPs Expenses and safe seats correlation - update Mark Reckons 2009
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However, disclaimer: The t-test is only strictly valid for normally distributed populations.
MPs Expenses and safe seats correlation - update Mark Reckons 2009
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Black and grey symbols indicate that means differ significantly from 100% (PP0. 05, respectively; two-tailed t-test).
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Someone should do a t-test or something to see if there is a statistical difference in this fact:
Waldo Jaquith - Payday lending votes and related contributions. 2007
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