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  2. Mills ratio - Wikipedia

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    The inverse Mills ratio is the ratio of the probability density function to the complementary cumulative distribution function of a distribution. Its use is often motivated by the following property of the truncated normal distribution. If X is a random variable having a normal distribution with mean μ and variance σ 2, then

  3. Ratio of uniforms - Wikipedia

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    The ratio of uniforms is a method initially proposed by Kinderman and Monahan in 1977 [1] for pseudo-random number sampling, that is, for drawing random samples from a statistical distribution. Like rejection sampling and inverse transform sampling, it is an exact simulation method. The basic idea of the method is to use a change of variables ...

  4. Lift (data mining) - Wikipedia

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    In data mining and association rule learning, lift is a measure of the performance of a targeting model (association rule) at predicting or classifying cases as having an enhanced response (with respect to the population as a whole), measured against a random choice targeting model.

  5. Likelihood-ratio test - Wikipedia

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    In statistics, the likelihood-ratio test is a hypothesis test that involves comparing the goodness of fit of two competing statistical models, typically one found by maximization over the entire parameter space and another found after imposing some constraint, based on the ratio of their likelihoods.

  6. Index of dispersion - Wikipedia

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    In probability theory and statistics, the index of dispersion, [1] dispersion index, coefficient of dispersion, relative variance, or variance-to-mean ratio (VMR), like the coefficient of variation, is a normalized measure of the dispersion of a probability distribution: it is a measure used to quantify whether a set of observed occurrences are clustered or dispersed compared to a standard ...

  7. Sequential probability ratio test - Wikipedia

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    The SPRT is currently the predominant method of classifying examinees in a variable-length computerized classification test (CCT) [citation needed].The two parameters are p 1 and p 2 are specified by determining a cutscore (threshold) for examinees on the proportion correct metric, and selecting a point above and below that cutscore.

  8. Odds ratio - Wikipedia

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    An odds ratio greater than 1 indicates that the condition or event is more likely to occur in the first group. And an odds ratio less than 1 indicates that the condition or event is less likely to occur in the first group. The odds ratio must be nonnegative if it is defined. It is undefined if p 2 q 1 equals zero, i.e., if p 2 equals zero or q ...

  9. Correlation ratio - Wikipedia

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    The correlation ratio was introduced by Karl Pearson as part of analysis of variance. Ronald Fisher commented: "As a descriptive statistic the utility of the correlation ratio is extremely limited. It will be noticed that the number of degrees of freedom in the numerator of depends on the number of the arrays" [1]