2024 productivity by the numbers
I monitor my productivity to see how things change over time. The metrics are: Blog posts written Visitor statistics and subscriptions to blog Twitter/X Academic papers published Books read The…
Two very annoying statistical fallacies with p-values
Some time ago, I wrote on Reddit: There are two errors that I see quite frequently: Conclude from the fact that a statistically significant difference was found to that a…
Simpler way to correct for restriction of range?
Restriction of range is when the variance in some variable is reduced compared to the true population variance. This lowers the correlation between this variable and other variables. It is…
Correlations and likert scales: What is the bias?
A person on ResearchGate asked the following question: How can I correlate ordinal variables (attitude Likert scale) with continuous ratio data (years of experience)? Currently, I am working on my…
Workgroup: Doing Bayesian Data Analysis: A Tutorial Introduction with R and BUGS
I started a workgroup for going thru the Doing Bayesian Data Analysis: A Tutorial Introduction with R and BUGS book. See thread on forum.
W values from the Shapiro-Wilk test visualized with different datasets
For a mathematical explanation of the test, see e.g. here. However, such an explanation is not very useful for using the test in practice. Just what does a W value…
Comments on Learning Statistics with R
So I found a textbook for learning both elementary statistics much of which i knew but hadnt read a textbook about, and for learning R. http://health.adelaide.edu.au/psychology/ccs/teaching/lsr/ book is free legally…
Analysis of top 200 (199) data from the Starcraft 2 European ladder
Two days ago, Blizzard posted some statistical data about the top 200 (really is 199) players in Europe. I did a bit of statistical analysis on that data and made…
Statistics – Dialog
Malintent: 78% of all statistics are completely made up. Wyz_sub10: ...but only 31% of all people know that. Smullyan-esque: And 10 out of 9 people just can't understand statistics at…