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Significance | The quality of being worthy of attention; importance. |
Reliability | The extent to which an experiment, test, or measuring procedure yields the same results on repeated trials. |
Statement | Something that you say or write in a formal or official way : something that is stated. |
Peer review | A process where work (such as a paper or a research proposal) is checked by a group of experts in the same field to make sure it meets the necessary standards before it is published or accepted. |
Validity | The amount of acceptance according to the law. |
Experimental design | The process of planning a study to meet specified objectives. |
Patent | A government authority or license conferring a right or title for a set period, especially the sole right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention. |
Intellectual property | Legal term that refers to creations of the mind. |
Confidence level | Percentage of all possible samples that can be expected to include the true population parameter. |
Experiment stations | Establishment for scientific research. |
Literature | Written works that are considered to be very good and to have lasting importance. |
Hypothesis | Idea or theory that is not proven but that leads to further study or discussion. |
Treatment group | Statistics A group formed by making all possible combinations of 2 factors. |
Scientific method | Method of procedure consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses. |
Theory | Supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained. |
Hatch act | United States federal law whose main provision prohibits employees in the executive branch of the federal government, except the president, vice-president, and certain designated high-level officials of that branch, from engaging in some forms of politic |
Control group | Group separated from the rest of the experiment where the independent variable being tested cannot influence the results. |
Data | Facts or information used usually to calculate, analyze, or plan something. |
Correlated | Have a mutual relationship or connection, in which one thing affects or depends on another. |
Research | Careful study that is done to find and report new knowledge about something. |
Problem | Something that is difficult to deal with : something that is a source of trouble, worry, etc. |
Applied | Having or relating to practical use : not theoretical. |
Fact | Something that truly exists or happens : something that has actual existence. |
T-test | A statistical examination of two population means. |