case alternation

in reading research, a procedure for stimulus presentation in which the characters of stimulus words switch between upper and lower case. The change is usually made in one of six ways: (a) to the complete word (APPLE/apple), (b) to alternate letters (ApPlE), (c) after the second letter (APple), (d) after the third letter (APPle), (e) after the fourth letter (APPLe), or (f) after each pair of letters (APplE).

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May 10th 2024

inferential statistics

a broad class of statistical techniques that allow inferences about characteristics of a population to be drawn from a sample of data from that population while controlling (at least partially) the extent to which errors of inference may be made. These techniques include approaches for testing hypotheses, estimating the value of parameters, and selecting among a set of competing models. Also called inductive statistics. Compare descriptive statistics.