New Year's 2009-2010

This year again we use the longstanding predictions of a meanshift (squared Stouffer Z) during 10 minutes surrounding midnight, and a variance decrease with a minimum at midnight. These two measures have been assessed for each New Year since 1998-1999, a total of 12 years.

The probability for the squared Stouffer Z for this year is positive but not significant at p=0.187 with Z=0.887.

For the Variance decrease, a comparison with the distribution of 10000 permutations of the data indicates a modest probability of 0.203 and Z=0.829, in accord with the prediction.

New Year's
2009-2010

In addition to the two figures above representing the results for the current year, a composite over the 12 years is shown for the variance decrease prediction, which is supported with a p-value of 0.030 and Z=1.879. The meanshift is nonsignificantly negative, contrary to the original prediction.

The following figure is a graph of the average of the variance over 12-years.

New Year's
1999-2010


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