A common objective in applying a statistical test is to compare the mean (average) of one sampled group with some hypothesized mean or the mean of a population. For example, you might want to compare ...

In statistics, a sample mean deviates from the actual mean of a population; this deviation is the standard error of the mean.

Two k-sample versions of an Anderson-Darling rank statistic are proposed for testing the homogeneity of samples. Their asymptotic null distributions are derived for the continuous as well as the ...

In industry, one sometimes compares a sample mean and minimum, or a mean and maximum, to reference values to determine whether a lot should be accepted. Particularly prominent examples of such ...