Statistics power

Many of the readers of the first edition have commented that the book was easy to read. I have attempted to maintain that tone in this new edition. The major change to the book is the addition of a chapter on reliability. As in the other chapters, this one also leaves the high power statistics for someone else and instead uses a common sense approach. It probably has a do and don t flavor, which just seemed appropriate as I was writing it. Because the subject of reliability is so important and so much can be written about it, the chapter had to be limited to what I felt was the more pertinent information. I had to remind myself that the subject of the book was compressors, not just their reliability. It is hoped that a proper balance was obtained. 

This example nicely demonstrates that straight statistics could (1) unsuspectingly lead to wrong conclusions ( DS is quite stable ), or (2) be used on purpose to cover up something that was already known or suspected ( powerful statistical analysis, conclusion must be true ). 

J. Powers, Statistical analysis of pharmacokinetic data. J. Vet. Pharmacol. Therap., 13 (1990) 113-120. 

Buzzi-Ferraris et al., (1983, 1984) proposed the use of a more powerful statistic for the discrimination among rival models however, computationally it is more intensive as it requires the calculation of the sensitivity coefficients at each grid point of the operability region. Thus, the simple divergence criterion of Hunter and Reimer (1965) appears to be the most attractive. 

For practical computation the software environment R is used. R is a powerful statistical software tool, it is freeware and can be downloaded at http //cran.r-project. org. Throughout the book we will present relevant R commands, and in Appendix 3 a brief introduction to R is given. An R-package chemometrics has been established it contains most of the data sets used in the examples and a number of newly written functions mentioned in this book. 

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Even with the most powerful statistical tools, it is not possible to extract from measurements more information than they contain. 

It is extremely useful to move beyond a subjective and qualitative analysis of the spatial distribution of sample components, and to begin to explore the quantitative information contained within chemical imaging data sets. One of the most powerful statistical representations of an image does not even maintain spatial information. A chemical image can be represented as a histogram, with intensity along the x-axis and the number of pixels with that intensity along the y-axis. This is a statistical and quantitative... 

Before complicated statistical models are constructed and run—increasingly easy with more and more powerful statistical computing packages—it is absolutely necessary to describe the basic characteristics of each variable—number of observations, mean, standard deviation, minimum, and maximum. That will reveal which data are below the limits of detection, are missing, are miscoded, and are outliers. If the study involves three or four key variables, associations among the variables should also be examined. Histograms and scatterplots will reveal data structures unanticipated from the numerical summaries. 

Finally keep in mind that analysis of variance (ANOYA) is the most powerful statistical technique for evaluating the results of factorial designs with replications if the significance of factors is of interest, rather than the models of their relationship. 

The F test is a very simple but powerful statistical test, as many other tests require the variances of the data or populations to be similar (i.e., not significantly different). This is quite logical it would be rather inappropriate to test the means of two data sets if the precisions of the data were significantly different. As mentioned previously, the precision is related to the reproducibility of the data collected. If we have poor reproducibility, then the power and the significance of further testing are somewhat limited. 

To bring to light the principles underlying the well-known least squares method, this method will be deduced from the powerful statistical... 

While the equilibrium kinetic theory permits us to develop in fairly simple manner the properties of a dilute hard sphere gas, it becomes progressively more complicated and difficult to apply to both dense systems and systems in which there are forces acting between particles. To deal with such systems, we shall here outline briefly the very powerful statistical methods of Gibbs. ... 

The direct calculation obtains the six constants simultaneously from all the experiments, with and without CO. It is worth noting that the second method requires a powerful statistical tool since it is not possible to simplify the equation for linear regression analysis. Eurthermore, a considerable number of experiments and reasonable initial values are required to allow a trustful calculation. 

Fuel and Power Statistics of Class I Steam Railways... 

The Hidden Markov Model (HMM) is a powerful statistical tool for modeling a sequence of data elements called the observation vectors. As such, extraction of patterns in time series data can be facilitated by a judicious selection and training of HMMs. In this section, a brief overview will be presented and the interested reader can find more details in numerous tutorials... 

The evaluative and subjective associations made by the consumer must be understood when assessing a product these are measured using market research techniques. If the market is understood, fragrances can be developed to match or enhance the image of a particular product or market segment. Sensory analysis is also an important tool in this process. Using powerful statistical techniques, the odour relationships between different products or perfumes can be characterized and quantified, and the results combined with market research to enable the subjective associations to be interpreted in odour terms. 

Unfortunately, many researchers still report only the mean and range limits and do not cite the SD or even the sample size (number of specimens, n). Such information is of very limited value, since the range is only a crude and inefficient measure of variation and its expectation depends on n. With the mean, SD, and n, one can calculate statistical ranges, the probability of any particular deviation, and carry out many other powerful statistical assessments. 

Note that the advent of powerful statistics and spreadsheet software has greatly eased the burden of performing least-squares analysis ol data. ... 

Denne JS (2001) Sample size recalculation using conditional power. Statistics in Medicine 20 ... 

There are several ways to reduce both type I and type II errors available to researchers. First, one can select a more powerful statistical method that reduces the error term by blocking, for example. This is usually a major goal for researchers and a primary reason they plan the experimental phase of a study in great detail. Second, as mentioned earlier, a researcher can increase the sample size. An increase in the sample size tends to reduce type II error, when holding type I error constant that is, if the alpha error is set at 0.05, increasing the sample size generally will reduce the rate of beta error. 

Although, traditionally, type 1 (a) error is considered more serious than type 11 Q3) error, this is not always the case. In research and development (R D) studies, type 11 error can be very serious. Eor example, if one is evaluating several compounds, using a small sample size pilot study, there is a real problem of concluding statistically that the compounds are not different from each other, when actually they are. Here, type 11 Q3) error can cause a researcher to reject a promising compound. One way around this is to increase the a level to reduce j3 error that is, use an a of 0.10 or 0.15, instead of 0.05 or 0.01. In addition, using more powerful statistical procedures can immensely reduce the probability of committing j3 error. 

Statistical analyses were performed with ADE-4 [25], a powerful statistical software program designed specifically for the analysis of environmental data. ADE-4 includes the main linear multivariate analyses and numerous graphical tools for optimal data display. 

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