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test statistic
Updated on 04/19/2018
the numerical result of a
statistical test
, which is used to determine
statistical significance
and evaluate the viability of a hypothesis.
any of the statistics relating to a test or its components, such as indices of item difficulty, item
reliability
,
item discriminability
, and so on. See
test analysis
.
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