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add statistical tests in GC in FAQ
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dippindots authored Jun 12, 2023
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* [What is a Virtual Study?](/user-guide/faq.md#what-is-a-virtual-study)
* [Is it necessary to log in to use virtual studies? If I do log in, what additional functionality do I gain?](/user-guide/faq.md#is-it-necessary-to-log-in-to-use-virtual-studies-if-i-do-log-in-what-additional-functionality-do-i-gain)
* [What is Group Comparison?](/user-guide/faq.md#what-is-group-comparison)
* [What are the statistical significance tests in Group Comparison?](/user-guide/faq.md#what-are-the-statistical-significance-tests-in-group-comparison)
* [Data Questions](/user-guide/faq.md#data-questions)
* [General Data](/user-guide/faq.md#general-data)
* [Does the portal contain cancer study X?](/user-guide/faq.md#does-the-portal-contain-cancer-study-x)
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If you log in, you gain the ability to save your virtual study to the list of existing studies on the homepage. This makes a virtual study functionally the same as any other study: you can access your virtual studies in the query builder and you can combine an existing virtual study with any other study to create a new virtual study.
#### What is Group Comparison?
Group Comparison is a suite of analysis features which allows a user to compare clinical or genomic features of user-defined groups of samples. These groups can be defined based on any clinical or genomic features. For an overview, see [our tutorial on group comparison](https://www.cbioportal.org/tutorials).

#### What are the statistical significance tests in Group Comparison?
- Survival tab: Log-rank test
- Clinical tab:
- Continuous data: Chi-squared test
- Categorical data: Kruskal Wallis test
- Other tabs
- 2 groups
- Continuous data: one-sided t-test
- Categorical data: one-sided Fisher's exact test
- 3 or more groups
- Continuous data: one-way ANOVA
- Categorical data: Chi-squared test

## Data Questions
### General Data
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