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11Partial Test Ban Treaty — The Treaty banning Nuclear Weapon Tests In The Atmosphere, In Outer Space And Under Water, often abbreviated as the Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT), Limited Test Ban Treaty (LTBT), or Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (NTBT) (although the latter also refers …
12Uniformly most powerful test — In statistical hypothesis testing, a uniformly most powerful (UMP) test is a hypothesis test which has the greatest power 1 eta among all possible tests of a given size α . For example, according to the Neyman Pearson lemma, the likelihood ratio …
13Town square test — is a threshold test for a free society proposed by a former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky, now a notable politician in Israel. The test is found in Sharansky s book, The Case for Democracy , and it reads: * If a person cannot walk into the… …
14Conconi test — The Conconi Test is a sports medicine test[1] intended to measure an individual s maximum anaerobic and aerobic threshold heart rates. The test measures a person s heart rates at different loads (e.g. faster speeds on a treadmill). The points are …
15Dark adaptation threshold — (DAT) is a vision test that measures the adjustment of the eye occurring under low levels of illumination. When light enters the eye, it ultimately reaches the rods and cones, which are two types of cells in the retina. Rods handle vision in low… …
16Cold pressor test — The cold pressor test is a cardiovascular test performed by immersing the hand into an ice water container, usually for one minute, and measuring changes in blood pressure and heart rate. Its response is clinically indicative concerning vascular… …
17Absolute threshold of hearing — The absolute threshold of hearing (ATH) is the minimum sound level of a pure tone that an average ear with normal hearing can hear with no other sound present. The absolute threshold relates to the sound that can just be heard by the… …
18Dental Admission Test — The Dental Admission Test (DAT) is a multiple choice standardized exam taken by potential dental school students in the United States and Canada (although there is a separate Canadian version with differing sections, both American and Canadian… …
19Sequential probability ratio test — The sequential probability ratio test (SPRT) is a specific sequential hypothesis test, developed by Abraham Wald. [cite journal first=Abraham last=Wald title=Sequential Tests of Statistical Hypotheses journal=Annals of Mathematical Statistics… …
20Flicker fusion threshold — The flicker fusion threshold (or flicker fusion rate) is a concept in the psychophysics of vision. It is defined as the frequency at which an intermittent light stimulus appears to be completely steady to the observer (this article centers around …
