Significance Tests
Significance tests for the evaluation of ranking methods
... tistical significance tests are designed to account for a small fraction of this variation that is due to ran- dom effects, assuming that all parameters that may have a systematic influence on the ...
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Randomized Significance Tests in Machine Translation
... randomized tests. Since all randomized tests only function in combina- tion with an automatic MT evaluation metric, we present results of each randomized test across four different MT ...
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Significance Tests Harm Progress in Forecasting
... that tests of statistical significance harm scientific ...correctly, significance tests are ...require tests of statistical ...of significance tests by examining an ...
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Significance Tests for Binomial Experiments: Ordering the Sample Space by Bayes Factors and Using Adaptive Significance Levels for Decisions
... Keywords: Significance level, sample size, Bayes ratio, likelihood function, optimal decision, 22.. significance test.[r] ...
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Statistical Significance Tests for Machine Translation Evaluation
... We carry out experiments using this method us- ing the BLEU score to compare the Spanish-English system with the Danish-English system. Results are displayed in Figure 7. We estimate statistical signif- icance for 100 ...
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Significance Tests for Longitudinal Functional Data.
... In this paper, we develop the novel statistical inferential methods for group-specific covariate ef- fects in correlated functional data. We propose and study global test statistics based on supremum- norm and L 2 -norm ...
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Skewness-kurtosis adjusted confidence estimators and significance tests
... The material of the present paper is part of a talk presented by the author at the Confer- ence of European Statistics Stakeholders, Rome 2014, see Abstracts of Communication, p.90, and arXiv:1504.02553. A more advanced ...
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Estimation of coherence between blood flow and spontaneous EEG activity in neonates
... repeated significance tests (one for each frequency component) is not recommended, as the probability of achieving a positive result increases, if the frequency range under investigation is ...statistical ...
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A Review of Two Population Growth Models and an Analysis of Factors Affecting the Chinese Population Growth
... So the significance tests in the regression (13) result above are valid. All the explanatory variables are not statistically significant because of large p-value and jointly[r] ...
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Employee participation and enterprise performance : an economic analysis
... When applied to subsamples of participatory and non-participatory firms in the West German database, significance tests of subsample means and discriminant analysis reveal no statistical[r] ...
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Uncoupling Multidimensional Contingency Tables
... ∆ζ is the loss of terseness when the dependence of two or more variables (’some’) is suppressed by uncoupling. It can be interpreted as the contribution of the correlation of some variables to the total correlation of ...
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Syntactical relation between spatial configuration and sense of safety in neighbourhood commercial streets
... residents. Significance tests and goodness of fit in the analysis of covariance structures. Comparative fit indexes in structural models. Responsive environments a manual for d[r] ...
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Assessment of anterior-posterior spinal curvatures in children suffering from hypopituitarism
... Stupnicki conducted the Eurofit fitness test on girls with Turner syndrome, in whom symptoms of GHD are common. The subjects had weaker results in strength tests than did healthy peers. They also had worst results ...
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The nexus between public expenditure and inflation in the Mediterranean countries
... Stationarity tests reveal, generally, that public expenditure/GDP ratio is a I(1) process, while prices index is a I(2) ...causality tests results show a short-run evidence of a directional flow from ...
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Serial whole brain magnetization transfer imaging in patients with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis at baseline and during treatment with interferon beta 1b
... histographic peak values ranging from 0.23 to 0.27 (Table 1). No statistical correlation (SRCC) between histographic peak and patient demographic measures (eg, age, disease duration, EDSS score, or enhancing lesion ...
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Evaluation of the progression of visual field damage in patients suffering from early manifest glaucoma
... the AGIS study in order to evaluate perimetric progression over 8 years of follow-up. Multivariate analysis of some risk factors evaluated over 4 years showed that the major predictive factor of VF deterioration was a ...
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Performance evaluation of high-volume electret filter air samplers in aerosol microbiome research
... Empirical cumulative distribution functions of sampling efficiencies are overlain the boxplots, and significance codes from Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests are indicated at the bottom of each s[r] ...
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Impact of Climate Change on Cotton Production: Case of Savannah Region, Northern Togo
... hypothesis tests where the calculated statistic follows a Student’s law when the null hypothesis is ...statistical tests, the t-test makes it poss- ible to reject or not the null hypothesis, and thus to ...
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The Significance of Procalcitonin and C Reactive Protein in Diagnostic Tests for Respiratory Adenovirus Infections in Children
... OALibJ | DOI:10.4236/oalib.1101717 5 August 2015 | Volume 2 | e1717 mg/L in 37%. Only 5.4% of these patients had a value <10 mg/L [11]. In-house tests (n = 106) revealed CRP values of <20, ≥20 - <50, ≥50 ...
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Evidence for the different physiological significance of the 6- and 2-minute walk tests in multiple sclerosis
... performance test [5] that has received attention as a promising clinical outcome in this population [6-8]. The 6MW appears to provide unique, and perhaps more sensitive, information about the walking performance of ...
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