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What is a p-value anyway? 34 Stories to Help You Actually Understand Statistics by Andrew J. Vickers

What is a p-value anyway? 34 Stories to Help You Actually Understand Statistics Andrew J. Vickers ebook
Page: 223
ISBN: 0321629302, 9780321629302
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Format: pdf

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. Does it really matter if the wording is a bit misleading? They could report lots of answers corresponding to many priors. 34 Stories to Help You Actually Understand, Andrew J. 34 stories to help you actually understand statistics”. In addition to his research work, Dr. 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 book download Download What is a p-value anyway? Like it or not, frequentist statistics is, for the most part, the accepted way of doing statistics for particle physics. I tell a friend that my job is more fun than you'd think: What is statistics? If we go the Bayesian route, what priors will they use? 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. Vickers has a strong interest in teaching statistics, and is author of “What is a p value anyway? Vickers, Mathematics Books - Blackwell Online Bookshop. I think we reinforce our image as pedants if we complain about this.