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IDEALLY, any experiment should be terminated as soon as sufficient data are at hand to warrant the acceptance or rejection of the proposed hypothesis at an acceptable level of statistical significance ...

Herein lie a couple of probability modules which address some basic concepts of probability. They investigate coin flips. dice rolls, and regression to mean all simulated using python programming. The ...

Postoperative Radiation Therapy for Endometrial Cancer: American Society of Clinical Oncology Clinical Practice Guideline Endorsement of the American Society for Radiation Oncology Evidence-Based ...

The analysis of plant competition experiments with variable plant density is discussed based on three published data sets. It is shown how conclusions regarding plant community dynamics from typical ...

The results add to physicists’ understanding of neutrinos and validate collaboration between major experiments.