One-sided vs two-sided tests US Medical PG Flashcards - Medical Study Cards
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One-sided vs two-sided tests Flashcard Deck - 10 Cards
Flashcard 1: _____ are a range of values within which the true mean of the population is expected to fall, with a specified probability (usually 95%)
Answer: Confidence intervals
Flashcard 2: _____ studies are observational studies that compare a group of people with disease to a group without disease
Answer: Case-control
Flashcard 3: A _____ is similar to a Chi-square test in that it is used to compare categorical outcomes but in small populations.
Answer: fisher's exact test
Flashcard 4: What statistical test is used to test the association between two or more categorical variables? _____
Answer: Chi-squared
Flashcard 5: What statistical test is used to check differences between the means of THREE or more groups? _____
Answer: Analysis of variance (ANOVA)
Flashcard 6: If the confidence interval does not include the null value, the result is statistically _____
Answer: significant
Flashcard 7: What statistical test is used to check differences between the means of TWO groups? _____
Answer: t-test
Flashcard 8: "α" with reference to statistical error
Answer: the probability of making a Type I statistical (false positive) error
Flashcard 9: 95% confidence interval (CI)
Answer: range of values which we are 95% certain include the true mean;
we are 95% certain that the true mean of a distribution falls within this range
Flashcard 10: Type I statistical error
Answer: Incorrectly rejecting the null hypothesis; false-positive
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