test statistic

American  

noun

1. a statistic used to test a hypothesis.

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Example Sentences

The fraction of permuted test statistics that exceed the observed test statistic is its p-value.

From Scientific American

In practice, the value of the test statistic on many of the permuted strings is the same as the value of the test statistic on the observed shot pattern.

From Scientific American

For an observed string, we computed a test statistic tk; the conditional fraction of hits given k prior hits minus the conditional fraction of hits given k prior misses, where k equals 1, 2, or 3.

From Scientific American

Mathematically, the test statistic tk on a string X of length L is defined as follows:

From Scientific American

P value cut-offs for 200 bp window sizes are indicated. b, Manhattan plot showing the −log10 test statistic of 200 bp genomic windows plotted against their respective chromosomal positions.

From Nature