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This paper introduces a statistical test inferring whether a variable allows separating two classes by means of a single critical value. Its test statistic is the prediction error of a nonparametric threshold classifier. While this approach…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-07-17 Fabian Schroeder

In this article, we present weighted norm inequality for a fractional one-sided minimal function. We prove weighted weak and strong type norm inequalities for the one-sided minimal function on $\mathbb{R}.$ We construct two weight classes…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-02-06 Duranta Chutia , Rajib Haloi

Robust classification algorithms have been developed in recent years with great success. We take advantage of this development and recast the classical two-sample test problem in the framework of classification. Based on the estimates of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-18 Haiyan Cai , Bryan Goggin , Qingtang Jiang

It is generally believed that more observations provide more information. However, we observe that in the independence test for rare events, the power of the test is, surprisingly, determined by the number of rare events rather than the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-17 Danyang Huang , Liyuan Wang , Liping Zhu

We point out that the traditional notion of test statistic is too narrow, and we propose a natural generalization that is arguably maximal. The study is restricted to simple statistical hypotheses.

Methodology · Statistics 2020-01-07 Yuri Gurevich , Vladimir Vovk

Statistical significance tests can provide evidence that the observed difference in performance between two methods is not due to chance. In Information Retrieval, some studies have examined the validity and suitability of such tests for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Javier Parapar , David E. Losada , Manuel A. Presedo-Quindimil , Alvaro Barreiro

This note includes an assessment of the partially overlapping samples t-tests in scenarios where elements of the test are at their extremes, including where only one sample contains independent observations

Methodology · Statistics 2019-06-05 Ben Derrick , Deirdre Toher , Paul White

A new thresholding method, based on L-statistics and called order thresholding, is proposed as a technique for improving the power when testing against high-dimensional alternatives. The new method allows great flexibility in the choice of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-10-21 Min Hee Kim , Michael G. Akritas

We consider multivariate two-sample tests of means, where the location shift between the two populations is expected to be related to a known graph structure. An important application of such tests is the detection of differentially…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2014-05-16 Laurent Jacob , Pierre Neuvial , Sandrine Dudoit

We provide evidence that a root-mean-square test of goodness-of-fit can be significantly more powerful than state-of-the-art exact tests in detecting deviations from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. Unlike Pearson's chi-square test, the…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-06-03 Rachel Ward , Raymond J. Carroll

We consider the hypothesis testing problem of detecting a shift between the means of two multivariate normal distributions in the high-dimensional setting, allowing for the data dimension p to exceed the sample size n. Specifically, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-09-15 Miles E. Lopes , Laurent J. Jacob , Martin J. Wainwright

In the setup of i.i.d.~observations and a real valued differentiable functional~$T$, locally asymptotic upper bounds are derived for the power of one-sided tests (simple, versus large values of~$T$)and for the confidence probability of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-05 Helmut Rieder

Testing the equality of two proportions is a common procedure in science, especially in medicine and public health. In these domains it is crucial to be able to quantify evidence for the absence of a treatment effect. Bayesian hypothesis…

A statistical test can be seen as a procedure to produce a decision based on observed data, where some decisions consist of rejecting a hypothesis (yielding a significant result) and some do not, and where one controls the probability to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-19 Aaron McDaid , Zoltan Kutalik , Valentin Rousson

We propose a new class of weighted logrank tests (WLRT) that control the risk of concluding that a new drug is more efficacious than standard of care, when, in fact, it is uniformly inferior. Perhaps surprisingly, this risk is not…

Applications · Statistics 2018-07-31 Dominic Magirr , Carl-Fredrik Burman

This paper deals with two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and its biasedness. This test is not unbiased in general in case of different sample sizes. We found out most biased distribution for some values of significance level $\alpha$.…

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This paper studies one-sided hypothesis testing under random sampling without replacement. That is, when $n+1$ binary random variables $X_1,\ldots, X_{n+1}$ are subject to a permutation invariant distribution and $n$ binary random variables…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-07 Zihao Li , Huangjun Zhu , Masahito Hayashi

Clinicians and scientists have traditionally focussed on whether their findings will be replicated and are very familiar with the concept. The probability that a replication study yields an effect with the same sign, or the same statistical…

Applications · Statistics 2025-12-17 Huw Llewelyn

Empirical economic studies often involve multiple propositions or hypotheses, with researchers aiming to assess both the collective and individual evidence against these propositions or hypotheses. To rigorously assess this evidence,…

Econometrics · Economics 2024-08-26 Zeng-Hua Lu

The log-normal distribution is used to describe the positive data, that it has skewed distribution with small mean and large variance. This distribution has application in many sciences for example medicine, economics, biology and…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-08-10 Saba Aghadoust , Kamel Abdollahnezhad , Farhad Yaghmaei , Ali Akbar Jafari