michaeladamkatz

I hate it when books say "Hopefully that's pretty clear." It adds no new information. And if it's not clear to me, it just makes me feel dumb. It just...

"For example, suppose a group of patients has been undergoing an experimental treatment and have had their health assessed to see whether their condition has improved, stayed the same or...

I happen to know from prior classes that the "binomial distribution" is so called because of the coefficients you get when multiplying out (a + b)^n. It feels to me...

"In my hot little hand I’m holding 20 identical six-sided dice." (a) I'm not averse to the whimsical nature of parts of this book, but "hot little hand" seems a...

Not surprisingly, JASP provides an analysis that will do these calculations for you. From the main ‘Analyses’ toolbar select ‘Frequencies’ - ‘Multinomial Test’. Then in the analysis window that appears...

"You’d hardly want to go around proclaiming a crisis in boys education" boys'

When you say > Okay, so you can see that there are two rather different but legitimate ways to interpret the p value, one based on Neyman’s approach to hypothesis...

(1) we choose an α level (e.g., α “ .05; Needs paren before semicolon. Also, this table duplicates the item numbers.

"What this is telling is is that the range of values has a 95% probability of containing the population mean µ." is -> us

footnote 7 This quote appears on a great many t-shirts and websites, and even gets a mention in a few academic papers (e.g., http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v10n3/friedman.html, but I’ve never found the original...