Stein [4] has exhibited a double sampling procedure to test hypotheses concerning the mean of normal variables with power independent of the unknown variances. This procedure is here adapted to test ...

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Hypothesis testing is a formal procedure for investigating our ideas about the world using statistics. It is most often used by researchers to test predictions, called hypotheses. The first step in ...

Advances in high-throughput biology and computer science are driving an exponential increase in the number of hypothesis tests in genomics and other scientific disciplines. Studies using current ...