The impact of Levene's test of equality of variances on statistical theory and practice

JL Gastwirth, YR Gel, W Miao - 2009 - projecteuclid.org
In many applications, the underlying scientific question concerns whether the variances of k
samples are equal. There are a substantial number of tests for this problem. Many of them …

Observations on the use of statistical methods in food science and technology

D Granato, VM de Araújo Calado, B Jarvis - Food Research International, 2014 - Elsevier
Statistical methods are important aids to detect trends, explore relationships and draw
conclusions from experimental data. However, it is not uncommon to find that many …

Why psychologists should by default use Welch's t-test instead of Student's t-test

M Delacre, D Lakens, C Leys - International Review of Social …, 2017 - research.tue.nl
When comparing two independent groups, psychology researchers commonly use Student's
t-Tests. Assumptions of normality and homogeneity of variance underlie this test. More often …

The association between mobile game addiction and depression, social anxiety, and loneliness

JL Wang, JR Sheng, HZ Wang - Frontiers in public health, 2019 - frontiersin.org
As a new type of addictive behaviors and distinct from traditional internet game addiction on
desktop computers, mobile game addiction has attracted researchers' attention due to its …

[BOOK][B] Angewandte statistik

J Hedderich, L Sachs - 2016 - Springer
Im Juni 2019 ist Prof. Lothar Sachs verstorben, ein Wegbereiter und Mentor für die
Anwendung statistischer Methoden in zahlreichen Gebieten. Er wurde 1929 in Berlin …

Constructed floating wetlands: a review of research, design, operation and management aspects, and data meta-analysis

N Pavlineri, NT Skoulikidis, VA Tsihrintzis - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper summarizes the state-of-the-art on Constructed Floating Wetlands (CFWs). An
attempt has been made here to collect and organize current literature and provide an insight …

Researcher bias: The use of machine learning in software defect prediction

M Shepperd, D Bowes, T Hall - IEEE Transactions on Software …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Background. The ability to predict defect-prone software components would be valuable.
Consequently, there have been many empirical studies to evaluate the performance of …

The unique composition of Indian gut microbiome, gene catalogue, and associated fecal metabolome deciphered using multi-omics approaches

DB Dhakan, A Maji, AK Sharma, R Saxena… - …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background Metagenomic studies carried out in the past decade have led to an enhanced
understanding of the gut microbiome in human health; however, the Indian gut microbiome …

The mitochondrial DNA genetic bottleneck results from replication of a subpopulation of genomes

T Wai, D Teoli, EA Shoubridge - Nature genetics, 2008 - nature.com
In mammals, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequence variants are observed to segregate
rapidly between generations despite the high mtDNA copy number in the oocyte. This has …

[PDF][PDF] A new nonparametric Levene test for equal variances

DW Nordstokke, BD Zumbo - Psicológica, 2010 - redalyc.org
Tests of the equality of variances are sometimes used on their own to compare variability
across groups of experimental or non-experimental conditions but they are most often used …