(medicine) A technique used to detect a particular nucleic acid sequence, usually to identify a particular organism, often a virus or bacteria.

A test done to analyze someone's DNA

An early test using hot paraffin wax to take a cast of a suspect's hand, which was then sprayed with a reagent to gauge the presence of propellant particles indicating that the person had fired a gun.

(statistics) A nonparametric test of the null hypothesis that the probability that a randomly selected value from one population is less than a randomly selected value from a second population is equal to the probability of being greater. It can be used to investigate whether two independent samples were selected from populations having the same distribution.

(econometrics) A test used for testing a null hypothesis that an observable time series is stationary around a deterministic trend (i.e. trend-stationary) against the alternative of a unit root.

Synonym of Tukey's range test

(statistics) A single-step multiple-comparison procedure and statistical test that can be used to find means that are significantly different from each other.

Synonym of Tukey's range test

(marketing) A form of market research in which members of the public are recruited and brought to a central location to provide feedback.

An individual test of a component, such as an electrical or mechanical device, that is performed with the component removed from its normal operating environment, notionally on a workshop bench.