This paper is the sixth in a series of statistics articles recently published by Australian Critical Care. In this paper we explore the most commonly used statistical tests to compare groups of data at the nominal level of measurement. The chosen statistical tests are the chi-square test, chi-square test for goodness of fit, chi-square test for independence, Fisher's exact test, McNemar's test ...

Present study aimed to compare the incidence of menopausal problems and concomitants between tribe and caste population. This cross section study was conducted in five villages of West Bengal, a state in the eastern part of India. This study was conducted between two different ethnic groups-one of the "Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PTG)" of India named as "Lodha" and the other was a Be...

This paper proposes the bivariate noncentral chi-square (BNC) distribution by compounding the Poisson probabilities with the bivariate central chi-square distribution. The probability density and cumulative distribution functions of the joint distribution of the two noncentral chi-square variables are derived for arbitrary values of the correlation coefficient, degrees of freedom(s), and noncen...

The aim of this paper is to relate and extend some recent work on chi-square goodness-of-fit tests. There is no discussion of any problems which are specifically associated with more than one categorical variable.. The main topics are the effect of estimation on chi-square and its partitions ~~d their relation to Neymants smooth goodness-of-fit test, and the effect of grotp:ing a univariate dis...

Given the vast reservoirs of sequence data stored worldwide, efficient mining of string databases such as intrusion detection systems, player statistics, texts, proteins, etc. has emerged as a great challenge. Searching for an unusual pattern within long strings of data has emerged as a requirement for diverse applications. Given a string, the problem then is to identify the substrings that dif...

Probability, Random Chance, and Genetics Why do we study random chance and probability during a unit on genetics? Genetics is the study of inheritance, but it is also a study of probability. Most eukaryotic organisms are diploid, meaning that each cell contains two copies of every chromosome, so there are two copies of each gene that controls a trait (alleles). In sexual reproduction, these two...

The rapid growth of Internet malicious activities has become a major concern to network forensics and security community. With the increasing use of IT technologies for managing information there is a need for stronger intrusion detection mechanisms. Critical mission systems and applications require mechanisms able to detect any unauthorised activities. An Intrusion Detection System (IDS) acts ...

This paper investigates the enrollment behavior of the students of Sylhet International University (SIU), a private university in Bangladesh. The researcher conducted reliability test, descriptive analysis, and chi-square tests and identified a number of key findings as to the enrollment behavior of students through collecting data from a sample of 584 students of SIU. The research shows that t...