Statistical Significance of Mutation Frequencies,and the Power of Statistical Testing,Using the Poisson Distribution |
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Authors: | Jerrold H. Zar |
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Abstract: | The Poisson distribution may be employed to test whether mutation frequencies differ from control frequencies. This paper describes how this testing procedure may be used for either one-tailed or two-tailed hypotheses. It is also shown how the power of the statistical test can be calculated, the power being the probability of correctly concluding the null hypothesis to be false. |
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Keywords: | Mutation frequencies Poisson distribution power |
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