Intro Statistics 9 Dance of the p Values

I use pictures from the ESCI software to give a brief, easy account of the Dance of the p Values. The simulation illustrates how enormously and disastrously variable the p value is, simply because of sampling variability. Never trust a p value! Use estimation, not NHST!

The dance of the p-values

Jan 12, 2016

Criticizing the use of p-values has begun to be so common place that it is getting dull repeating it. However, in his class on Moderation and Mediation today, Dominique Muller recommended a YouTube presentation called: “The dance of the P-values”. It puts the...

The rater in surveys as a source of bias.

Dec 11, 2015

As a method of collecting data, surveys have been widely criticized for the biases that are included in the data. When the source of biases are the same for both the dependent and the independent variable, (as in, what is used to explain, and what we are seeking to...

Want to catch up on statistics?

Sep 24, 2015

Statistics as a field is developing fast; and less you use it regularly, one tends to forget 🙂 Coursera offers a course to help you catch up, or learn for the first time.   https://www.coursera.org/course/statistics