What is a one sample t test? The t test is a commonly used hypothesis test in statistics that allows us to compare the mean value of a group of sampled data with some hypothesized value, usually a ...

A t-test for population means compares the means between two populations. It is appropriate when the population standard deviations are unknown. This applet allows users to change the distributions of ...

Meta-analysis is a commonly used approach to increase the sample size for genome-wide association searches when individual studies are otherwise underpowered. Here, we present a meta-analysis ...

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