What is a p-value anyway? 34 Stories to Help You Actually Understand Statistics download
Par baca todd le jeudi, février 25 2016, 22:56 - Lien permanent
What is a p-value anyway? 34 Stories to Help You Actually Understand Statistics. Andrew J. Vickers
What.is.a.p.value.anyway.34.Stories.to.Help.You.Actually.Understand.Statistics.pdf
ISBN: 0321629302,9780321629302 | 223 pages | 6 Mb
What is a p-value anyway? 34 Stories to Help You Actually Understand Statistics Andrew J. Vickers
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Drawing on his experience as a medical researcher, Vickers blends insightful explanations and humor, with minimal math, to help readers understand and interpret the statistics they read every day. Vickers has a strong interest in teaching statistics, and is author of “What is a p value anyway? When we say "the treatment is effective with statistical significance p=1%" it means that if there were no difference between the treatment group and the control group, we would expect to see results like this (favoring the treatment group) 1% of 34 Stories to Help You Actually Understand Statistics by Andrew Vickers. You might think that in some cases you can use historical values: in the general population, x% are prone to get disease D, and they recover in y days on average. Like it or not, frequentist statistics is, for the most part, the accepted way of doing statistics for particle physics. When I teach, I give bonus points for any student giving a particularly dumb answer because those are the ones we really learn from. In addition to his research work, Dr. 34 Stories to Help You Actually Understand Statistics". Measurement and statistics for teachers - Van Blerkom, Malcolm L. They could report lots of answers corresponding to many priors. : 34 stories to help you actually understand statistics - Vickers, Andrew,. The big picture is: the evidence for the effect is overwhelming. Does it really matter if the wording is a bit misleading? 34 stories to help you actually understand statistics”. If we go the Bayesian route, what priors will they use? I think we reinforce our image as pedants if we complain about this. 34 Stories to Help You Actually Understand Statistics · Edit · Delete · Tags · Autopost.
Understanding computers and cognition download