THE POWER OF STATISTICAL TESTS

Abstract

The concept of power for statistical tests of hypotheses, and various ideas connected with it, are described and illustrated. The power is given for a number of the common statistical tests, and tables are supplied which facilitate decisions on the sample sizes necessary for detecting differences between means, variances, proportions defective, etc. with prescribed power.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1953
Accession Number
AD0027933

Entities

People

  • E. S. Keeping

Organizations

  • University of Alberta

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Chi Square Test
  • Confidence Limits
  • Data Science
  • Distribution Functions
  • Information Science
  • Normality
  • Numbers
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Random Variables
  • Statistical Algorithms
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Statistical Samples
  • Statistical Tests
  • Statistics

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Regression Analysis.