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A quantity (such as a statistical median, quartile deviation, etc.), which is calculated from observed data.

The smallest statistical rank (either up or down) of a set of data.

The ordinal number of a value in a list arranged in a specified order (usually decreasing).

1.5 times the H-spread.

Trials for which the Lexis ratio L=sigma/(sigma_B), satisfies L>1, where sigma is the variance in a set of s Lexis trials and sigma_B is the variance assuming Bernoulli ...

In statistics, a trial is a single performance of well-defined experiment (Papoulis 1984, p. 25), such as the flipping of a coin, the generation of a random number, the ...

The trimean is defined to be TM=1/4(H_1+2M+H_2), where H_i are the hinges and M is the statistical median. Press et al. (1992) call this Tukey's trimean. It is an L-estimate.

An error in a statistical test which occurs when a false hypothesis is accepted (a false positive in terms of the null hypothesis).

An error in a statistical test which occurs when a true hypothesis is rejected (a false negative in terms of the null hypothesis).

A quantity which does not exhibit estimator bias. An estimator theta^^ is an unbiased estimator of theta if <theta^^>=theta.