Suggested Citation: "1 Introduction." National Research Council. 1998. Statistics, Testing, and Defense Acquisition: New Approaches and Methodological Improvements ...

Significance testing, with appropriate multiple testing correction, is currently the most convenient method for summarizing the evidence for association between a disease and a genetic variant.

Statistical significance is a critical concept in data analysis and research. In essence, it’s a measure that allows researchers to assess whether the results of an experiment or study are due to ...

High-dimensional statistical testing and covariance analysis constitute a rapidly evolving field that addresses the challenges inherent in analysing datasets where the number of variables often ...

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 ...

What is a one sample t test? The t test is a commonly used hypothesis test in statistics that allows us to compare the mean value of a group of sampled data with some hypothesized value, usually a ...

Statistics is to science as steroids are to baseball. Addictive poison. But at least baseball has attempted to remedy the problem. Science remains mostly in denial. True, not all uses of statistics in ...

Fielding operationally suitable systems is a prime objective of defense acquisition. A suitable weapon system is one that is available for combat when needed, is reliable enough to accomplish its ...