BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Methodology
Summary Statistics
4 min
the trial statistics and the summary statistic extracts provide summary statistics for assessments of specific trial / trait / age combinations summary statistics are calculated for a trial for either trial entries or genetic entities users specify either trial entries or genetic entities as part of the extract procedure the trial statistics extract calculates statistics on demand, using data selected within the extract proceedure the summary statistics extract uses pre calculated summaries for all genetic entities within the trial the methodology used for calculating the following summary statistics is described below summary statistics are computed for individual trial entries or genetic entities for all t in a trial, as well as over all trial entries or genetic entities specifically, where mean of a single trial entry or genetic entity t minimum (min) and maximum (max) of a single trial entry or genetic entity t the standard deviation (sd) of a single trial entry or genetic entity t variance (var) of a single trial entry or genetic entity t overall mean of all trial entries or genetic entities overall standard deviation of all trial entries or genetic entities, that is, the standard deviation of all the trial entries or genetic entities means standardised mean (smean) of a single trial entry or genetic entity t standardised ranking (rank) of a single trial entry or genetic entity t with consecutive genetic entities with same mean assigned the same rank