Exploratory hypothesis tests can be more compelling than confirmatory hypothesis tests

Truncated sequential hypothesis tests

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Hypothesis tests for hydrologic alteration

Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Tests

Overview: Recall that a point estimator for a parameter of interest is a statistic which is a function of the random variables from which our sampling method chooses values. The properties of such an estimator, such as having a small bias or a small mean square error, are usually dependent only upon certain features of the sampling distribution of the statistic, such as its mean or variance. Ho...

Optimal Sequential Multiple Hypothesis Tests

This work deals with a general problem of testing multiple hypotheses about the distribution of a discrete-time stochastic process. Both the Bayesian and the conditional settings are considered. The structure of optimal sequential tests is characterized.

TO HOW MANY SIMULTANEOUS HYPOTHESIS TESTS CAN NORMAL, STUDENT’S t OR BOOTSTRAP CALIBRATION BE APPLIED?

In the analysis of microarray data, and in some other contemporary statistical problems, it is not uncommon to apply hypothesis tests in a highly simultaneous way. The number, ν say, of tests used can be much larger than the sample sizes, n, to which the tests are applied, yet we wish to calibrate the tests so that the overall level of the simultaneous test is accurate. Often the sampling distr...