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unusual facts about Tukey's test


Tukey's test

Tukey's range test, also called Tukey method, Tukey's honest significance test, Tukey's HSD (Honestly Significant Difference) test


1-Naphthol

In Molisch's test, 1-naphthol dissolved in ethanol, known as Molisch's reagent, is used as reagent for detecting the presence of carbohydrates.

Bland–Altman plot

It is identical to a Tukey mean-difference plot, the name by which it is known in other fields, but was popularised in medical statistics by J. Martin Bland and Douglas G. Altman.

Christen Thomsen Barfoed

Christen Thomsen Barfoed (June 16, 1815 – April 30, 1899) was a Danish chemist who devised a way to detect monosaccharide sugars in a solution, now known as the Barfoed's test.

Cochran's test

Cochran's Q test, a non-parametric test that is applied to the analysis of two-way randomized block designs with a binary response variable.

Dirichlet's test

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John Tukey

Among many contributions to civil society, Tukey served on a committee of the American Statistical Association that produced a report challenging the conclusions of the Kinsey Report, Statistical Problems of the Kinsey Report on Sexual Behavior in the Human Male.

Levene's test

Brown and Forsythe performed Monte Carlo studies that indicated that using the trimmed mean performed best when the underlying data followed a Cauchy distribution (a heavy-tailed distribution) and the median performed best when the underlying data followed a Chi-squared distribution with four degrees of freedom (a heavily skewed distribution).

Manfred Bial

Manfred Bial (1869–1908) was a German physician who invented a test for pentoses using orcinol, now known as Bial's test.

Roger Swain

From 2005-06 he was the co-host of the television show People, Places, and Plants with Paul Tukey on HGTV.

Siegel–Tukey test

In statistics, the Siegel–Tukey test, named after Sidney Siegel and John Tukey, is a non-parametric test which may be applied to data measured at least on an ordinal scale.

Theory of conjoint measurement

Whilst the German mathematician Otto Hölder (1901) anticipated features of the theory of conjoint measurement, it was not until the publication of Luce & Tukey's seminal 1964 paper that the theory received its first complete exposition.


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