New Year 2012-2013

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 15 years.

The probability for the squared Stouffer Z for this year is not significant at p=0.329 with Z=0.444

For the Variance decrease, a comparison with the distribution of 10000 permutations of the data indicates a modest probability of 0.570 and Z=-0.176, in accord with the prediction. A simpler calculation of the variance deviation during the 10-minute period surrounding midnight yields an estimated Z of -0.585.

New Year's
2012-2013

In addition to the two figures above representing the results for the current year, a composite over the 15 years is shown for the two measures. The meanshift is slightly positive, with p = 0.314 and Z = 0.484. But the variance decrease prediction calculated by permutation analysis is more strongly supported with a p-value of 0.038 and Z=1.778. A simpler calculation addresses the implicit prediction that the variance will be low around midnight. If we look at midnight +/- 5 minutes, the deviation is similar, with a slightly larger estimated Z-score of 1.890.

New Year's
1999-2012



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