In the early 20 th century, Guinness breweries in Dublin had a policy of hiring the best graduates from Oxford and Cambridge to improve their industrial processes. At the time, it was considered a ...

At times we wish to examine statistical evidence, and determine whether it supports or contradicts a claim that has been made (or that we might wish to make) concerning the entire population. This is ...

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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 ...

In this article, we assume that categorical data are distributed according to a multinomial distribution whose probabilities follow a loglinear model. The inference problem we consider is that of ...

What is the Friedman test? The Friedman test, also sometimes referred to as Friedman’s two-way analysis of variance by ranks, is a non-parametric statistical test used to investigate whether groups of ...