Sentences with phrase «statistical testing purposes»

For statistical testing purposes the hypothesis and its null should be mutually exclusive, which their's isn't since warming may be caused by both man and nature.

Not exact matches

to administer the website and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;

The purpose of tests of statistical significance is to determine whether results reflect genuine changes in performance or simply random fluctuation.

Both the American Statistical Association, which is the largest organization in the United States representing statisticians and related professionals, and the American Educational Research Association have questioned the validity of using standardized test scores to measure teacher effectiveness and cautioned against using them for such purposes.

Specific provisions included scholarships and loans to students in higher education, with loans to students preparing to be teachers and to those who showed promise in the curricular areas of mathematics, science, engineering, and modern foreign languages; grants to states for programs in mathematics, science, and modern foreign languages in public schools; the establishment of centres to expand and improve the teaching of languages; help to graduate students, including fellowships for doctoral students to prepare them to be professors at institutions of higher learning; assistance for the improvement of guidance, counseling, and testing programs; provisions for research and experimentation in the use of television, radio, motion pictures, and related media for educational purposes; and the improvement of statistical services at the state level.

This serves the same purpose as running statistical validation tests.

To argue that it is the right reconstruction, one actually has to use rational statistical tests designed for the purpose.

It gives up the high ground (even though one is using it for a good purpose, trying to argue that this «ensemble» fails elementary statistical tests.