What is a p-value anyway? 34 Stories to Help You Actually Understand Statistics
Andrew J. Vickers
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What is a p-value anyway? 34 Stories to Help You Actually Understand Statistics Andrew J. Vickers
Publisher: Addison Wesley
34 Stories to Help You Actually Understand Statistics Ad-ison W-esley; 1 edition (November 28, 2009) | ISBN: 0321629302 | 240 pages | PDF | 10 MB. Does it really matter if the wording is a bit misleading? 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. Like it or not, frequentist statistics is, for the most part, the accepted way of doing statistics for particle physics. The big picture is: the evidence for the effect is overwhelming. 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. Offers a fun introduction to the fundamental principles of statistics, presenting the essential concepts in thirty-four brief, enjoyable stories. He is active in a variety of fields of cancer research, and also conducts original research in statistical methods, particularly with respect to the evaluation of prediction models. Gmgraham@rollins.edu on April 23, 2013 at 10:56 pm said: What is a p-value anyway? 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. 34 Stories to Help You Actually Understand Statistics · Edit · Delete · Tags · Autopost. Bottom-Line: An excellent introduction to statistical analysis.” Log in to Reply. If we go the Bayesian route, what priors will they use? They could report lots of answers corresponding to many priors. 34 Stories to Help You Actually Understand Statistics. I think we reinforce our image as pedants if we complain about this.
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