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A statistic defined to improve the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test in the tails.

The probability of getting a positive result for a given test which should produce a positive result.

The positive predictive value is the probability that a test gives a true result for a true statistic. The negative predictive value is the probability that a test gives a ...

The Pratt certificate is a primality certificate based on Fermat's little theorem converse. Prior to the work of Pratt (1975), the Lucas-Lehmer test had been regarded purely ...

A statistic defined to improve the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test in the tail of a distribution.

The divisibility test that an integer is divisible by 9 iff the sum of its digits is divisible by 9.

A sequence of functions {f_n}, n=1, 2, 3, ... is said to be uniformly convergent to f for a set E of values of x if, for each epsilon>0, an integer N can be found such that ...

The determination of a test for the equality of means for two normal distributions with different variances given samples from each. There exists an exact test which, ...

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).