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  2. Probability of superiority - Wikipedia

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    In other words, the correlation is the difference between the common language effect size and its complement. For example, if the common language effect size is 60%, then the rank-biserial r equals 60% minus 40%, or r = 0.20. The Kerby formula is directional, with positive values indicating that the results support the hypothesis.

  3. Boy or girl paradox - Wikipedia

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    The Boy or Girl paradox surrounds a set of questions in probability theory, which are also known as The Two Child Problem, [1] Mr. Smith's Children [2] and the Mrs. Smith Problem. The initial formulation of the question dates back to at least 1959, when Martin Gardner featured it in his October 1959 " Mathematical Games column " in Scientific ...

  4. Life expectancy - Wikipedia

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    Human life expectancy is a statistical measure of the estimate of the average remaining years of life at a given age. The most commonly used measure is life expectancy at birth (LEB, or in demographic notation e 0, where e x denotes the average life remaining at age x). This can be defined in two ways.

  5. List of unsolved problems in statistics - Wikipedia

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    Though there are many approximate solutions (such as Welch's t-test), the problem continues to attract attention [4] as one of the classic problems in statistics. Multiple comparisons: There are various ways to adjust p-values to compensate for the simultaneous or sequential testing of hypotheses. Of particular interest is how to simultaneously ...

  6. Relative change - Wikipedia

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    A percentage change is a way to express a change in a variable. It represents the relative change between the old value and the new one. [6]For example, if a house is worth $100,000 today and the year after its value goes up to $110,000, the percentage change of its value can be expressed as = = %.

  7. The second-oldest person in the US has died aged 113. Her 4 ...

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    Herlda Senhouse, formerly the second oldest person in the US, died this week at the age of 113. She thought lifestyle factors could have contributed to her longevity as well as her genes.

  8. History of statistics - Wikipedia

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    Wright felt that this value was the most likely to be the correct value in a series of observations. The difference between the mean and the median was noticed in 1669 by Chistiaan Huygens in the context of using Graunt's tables. [4] Sir William Petty, a 17th-century economist who used early statistical methods to analyse demographic data

  9. Scientists study world’s oldest person to unearth secret to ...

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    Maria Branyas, the oldest woman in the world at 116, has agreed to help Spanish scientists