test statistic

noun

1. a statistic used to test a hypothesis.

Example Sentences

Using the Knox test statistic, which is a widely used statistical test for space-time interaction among a set of events, the researchers identified that the number of fatal overdoses doubled within 500 meters of the seizure site following opioid seizures.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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