What Is Meant by the Sensitivity of a Statistical Test

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Essay

What is meant by the sensitivity of a statistical test?

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Definitions:

Independent Samples

Two or more groups of observations that are collected from different populations and have no relationship with each other.

Population Variances

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points in a population, indicating how much the data points differ from the population mean.

Independent Samples

Samples that are collected without any natural pairing or linkage between the observations in each sample.

Ratio

A quantitative relationship between two numbers showing how many times one value contains or is contained within the other.