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ratio test

noun

, Mathematics.
  1. the theorem that a given infinite series converges if the absolute value of the ratio of the term succeeding the n th term to the n th term approaches a limit less than 1 as n increases without bound.


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Even Kardashian, a woman whose physical perfection rates very highly on the golden ratio test, doesn’t look her best pictured in West-approved shades.

A likelihood ratio test was conducted to test the null hypothesis that intergenic distances follow an exponential distribution against the alternative hypothesis that the distances follow a mixture of exponential distributions.

From Nature

To test the significance of predictor variables, we used a likelihood ratio test.

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The best 1-asymmetric-rate model is tested against the symmetric model with a likelihood ratio test with 1 degree of freedom, and the P value is subjected to Bonferroni multiple testing correction to account for the 15 models evaluated.

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We used a likelihood ratio test to test for direct ancestry of Kennewick Man for two members of the Colville tribe who show no evidence of recent European admixture.

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