In its simplest form, ANOVA provides a statistical test of whether or not the means of several groups are all equal, and therefore generalizes t-test to more than two groups.

* One-way ANOVA is used to test for differences among two or more independent groups ( means ), e. g. different levels of urea application in a crop.

For determining whether someone is intoxicated by alcohol by some means other than a blood-alcohol test, it is necessary to rule out other conditions such as hypoglycemia, stroke, usage of other intoxicants, mental health issues, and so on.

An electric field has the special property that it is conservative, which means that the path taken by the test charge is irrelevant: all paths between two specified points expend the same energy, and thus a unique value for potential difference may be stated.

When applied to whiteware ceramics, vitreous means the material has an extremely low permeability to liquids, often but not always water, when determined by a specified test regime.

There is no means test, and the richest as well as the poorest citizens would receive it.

It is similar to a basic income or negative income tax system, except that it is normally conditional and subject to a means test.

Visual comparison of the color of a test solution with a standard color chart provides a means to measure pH accurate to the nearest whole number.

Several countries have special schemes, administered with no requirement for contributions and no means test, for people in certain categories of need-for example, veterans of armed forces, people with disabilities and very old people.

These are non-contributory benefits given for whole sections of the population without a test of means or need, such as family allowances or the public pension in New Zealand ( known as New Zealand Superannuation ).

Sir William Burnett, the Physician General of the Navy, interviewed him and arranged for the College of Surgeons to test his competence ( by means of a viva voce )

This Lemon test has been criticized by Justices and legal scholars, but it remains the predominant means by which the Court enforces the Establishment Clause.

This means that although a 10 kiloton weapon has only 0. 7 % of the total energy release of the 1. 44-megaton Starfish Prime test, the EMP will be at least 8 % as powerful.

Stabilization in this test means, more specifically, when the hourly increase in osmolality is less than 30 Osm / kg per hour for at least 3 hours.

The standard common law test of criminal liability is usually expressed in the Latin phrase, actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea, which means " the act does not make a person guilty unless the mind is also guilty ".

The 1962 Sedan ( nuclear test ) | Sedan nuclear test formed a crater 100 m ( 330 ft ) deep with a diameter of about 390 m ( 1, 300 ft ), as a means of investigating the possibilities of using peaceful nuclear explosions for large-scale earth moving.

Through these activities the U. S. Trustee has achieved a regulatory system that Congress and most creditor-friendly commentors have consistently espoused, i. e., a formal means test for Chapter 7.

The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 has clarified this area of concern by making changes to the U. S. Bankruptcy Code that include, along with many other reforms, language imposing a means test for Chapter 7 cases.

The accuracy of the forms is nevertheless imperfect, as it is difficult for software to ensure that the debtor understands what has to be disclosed, what the exemptions for their state are, whether they qualify for said exemptions, and whether expenses included on the means test are allowable.

This test is referred to as the " means test ".

The means test provides for a finding of abuse if the debtor's disposable monthly income is higher than a specified floor amount or portion of their debts.

If a presumption of abuse is found under the means test, it may only be rebutted in the case of " special circumstances.

The rustling problem was by no means solved.

A man like Jess would want to have a ready means of escape in case it was needed.

It was said that the Hetman plotted to take over the entire Hearst newspaper empire one day by means of various coups: the destruction of editors who tried to halt his course, the unfrocking of publishers whose mistakes of judgment might be magnified in secret reports to Mr. Hearst.

The Hetman had a strong liking for a story, any story which was to be had by means of much sleuthing or by roundabout methods.

But that scarcely means that he was the aloof, forbidding type of student who shared few if any activities with his fellows, the banter of the surviving prolusions providing enough evidence to deny this.

The most that was accomplished was adding Mrs. Beige's tray to the dish pile, and by means of repeated threats, on an ascending scale, seeing that the girls dressed themselves, after a fashion.

The anode in figure 2 was mounted by means of the anode holder which was attached to a steel plug and disk.

The current was regulated by means of a variable resistor and measured with a 50 mV shunt and millivoltmeter.

Though little democracy had ever been practised in this region, and much of it was still ruled by feudalistic means, it was taken for granted that at least the forms of Western democracy would be established in this area and Western capitalism preserved within it.

The difference is important, for although the older law of nations did cover relationships among sovereigns, this was by no means its exclusive domain.

It was, too, an optimistic philosophy, and, though it separated law from morality, it was by no means an immoral or amoral one.

The infamous Wansee Conference called by Heydrich in January 1942, to organize the material and technical means to put to death the eleven million Jews spread throughout the nations of Europe, was attended by representatives of major organs of the German state, including the Reich Minister of the Interior, the State Secretary in charge of the Four Year Plan, the Reich Minister of Justice, the Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs.

Boun My -- the name means one who has a boun, a celebration, and is therefore lucky -- was born in Savannakhet, the Border of Paradise.

A gentleman of the old school, Mr. Upton possessed intellectual power, ample means, and withal, was a devoted Christian.

In any case, anyone who fails to make significant distinction between primary and secondary applications of economic pressure would in principle already have justified that use of economic boycott as a means which broke out a few years ago or was skillfully organized by White Citizens' Councils in the entire state of Mississippi against every local Philco dealer in that state, in protest against a Philco-sponsored program over a national TV network on which was presented a drama showing, it seemed, a `` high yellow gal '' smooching with a white man.

He told the committee the measure would merely provide means of enforcing the escheat law which has been on the books `` since Texas was a republic ''.

At the last session of the General Assembly, the town was authorized to adopt such an ordinance as a means of making enforcement of minor offenses more effective.

According to this doctrine, the universe was ruled by Heaven, T'ien -- as a natural force, or in the personification of a Supreme Sky-god -- governing all things by means of a process called the Tao, which can be roughly interpreted as `` the Order of the Universe '' or `` the Universal Way ''.

Aristotle, whose name means " the best purpose ," was born in Stageira, Chalcidice, in 384 BC, about east of modern-day Thessaloniki.

This was a compromise arrangement for a broadcast time scale: a linear transformation of the BIH's atomic time meant that the time scale was stable and internationally synchronised, while approximating UT1 means that tasks such as navigation which require a source of Universal Time continue to be well served by public time broadcasts.