title: A test for randomness.
abstract: A procedure is proposed for studying the hypothesis that a sequence of dichotomous random variables are independent and identically (randomly) distributed. The procedure is relatively sensitive to departures from randomness involving multiple clustering. An application to testing for Schwann cell disease is discussed. The distrubution of the sample coefficient of variation from an exponential distribution, a useful statistic in testing randomness for a continuous model, is also studied.
mesh_terms: D001699:Biometry; D003711:Demyelinating Diseases / Q000473:pathology; D007395:Interneurons / Q000473:pathology; D008433:Mathematics; D012583:Schwann Cells / Q000473:pathology; D013223:Statistics as Topic