Cheating Gauss
Transforming data. Sometimes our data set will not follow a normal distribution. We can try transforming data to change this situation.
Science without sense...double nonsense
Evidence Based Medicine pills
Science without sense...double nonsense
Evidence Based Medicine pills
Category Statistics
When the zeroes of p are important
Bonferroni’s correction. By making multiple comparisons, the risk of Type I error increases proportionally. This can be avoided with the Bonferroni’s correction.
The oddities of small towns
Law of small numbers. The law of small numbers, applying binomial probability, explains the occurrence of Bernouilli events in small samples. I remember when I was a child and went to school that almost everyone had a village to go…
The big family
Probability distributions. Probability distributions frequently used, different to the normal one, are described: Student’s t, chi-square and Snédecor’s F.
The most famous of bells
The normal distribution. We describe normal distribution, probably the most used in statistics, its properties and the characteristics of the standard distribution.