Snip!t channel - Alan Dix: Channels > statistics

Unsure Calculator

2025-04-06T08:11:33Z

Calculate with numbers youÃ¢â¬â¢re not sure about Hi, I'm Filip, and I'd like to introduce to you an early version of an uncertainty calculator. Statistics are scary, but they don't need to be. If you allow me to simplify, the field of statist...

How a magician-mathematician revealed a casino loophole - BBC Future

2022-10-20T14:42:43Z

To study riffle shuffles rigorously, Diaconis used a pow... tool called a Markov chain.

Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis

2018-01-04T08:40:32Z

Welcome to the Journal of Articles in Support of the Nul... the past other journals and reviewers have exhibited a b... articles that did not reject the null hypothesis. We see... offering an outlet for experiments that do not reach the... significanc

When You Fall in Love, This Is What Facebook Sees - The Atlantic

2017-06-15T21:16:00Z

During the 100 days before the relationship starts, we o... steady increase in the number of timeline posts shared b... couple.

The Scottish Scoundrel Who Changed How We See Data - Atlas Obscura

2017-04-03T21:05:14Z

When he wasnÃ¢â¬â¢t blackmailing lords and being sued for l... Playfair invented the pie chart, the bar graph, and the ...

Opinion: Big-Data Algorithms Are Manipulating Us All | WIRED

2016-10-20T10:41:18Z

In 1954, Darrell Huff wrote a neat little book called Ho... Statistics, a how-to guide for marketers to mislead and ... into believing just about anything with the right graphi... well-placed stat. Computationally speaking, weÃ¢â¬â¢ve come... 1954, but i

2016-10-17T18:22:16Z

Incentivizing Reproducibility | October 2016 | Communications of the ACM

2016-10-02T08:40:00Z

A scientific result is not truly established until it is... confirmed. This is one of the tenets of experimental sci...

Tax Research UK ÃÂ» The Conservatives have been the biggest borrowers over the last 70 years

2016-09-28T21:02:51Z

I was interviewed twice on the radio on Friday evening t... McDonnellÃ¢â¬â¢s new fiscal rule, once on LBC and the other... both cases the interviewers were quite explicit in stati... known that Labour always borrowed more than the Conserva... why the ele

How politicians poisoned statistics - FT.com

2016-04-22T20:55:34Z

ft.com > life&arts > FT Magazine Subscribe Sign in Home UK World Companies Markets Global Economy Lex Comme ... ... icks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.Ã¢â¬Â

2016-03-24T19:09:15Z

xkcd: Significant

2016-03-08T17:22:02Z

Significant

Statisticians issue warning over misuse of P values : Nature News & Comment

2016-03-08T16:55:15Z

Policy statement aims to halt missteps in the quest for ...

Statistics: P values are just the tip of the iceberg : Nature News & Comment

2016-03-08T16:55:01Z

Ridding science of shoddy statistics will require scruti... not merely the last one

2016-01-01T11:46:29Z

Ten ironic rules for non-statistical reviewers

2015-11-10T11:18:53Z

As an expert reviewer, it is sometimes necessary to ensure a paper is rejected. This can sometimes be achieved by highlighting improper statistical practice. This technical note provides guidance on how to critique the statistical analysis of neuroimaging

The Truth Wears Off - The New Yorker

2015-08-17T07:08:16Z

Although many scientific ideas generate conflicting resu... falling effect sizes, they continue to get cited in the ... standard medical practice. Why? Because these ideas seem... make sense. Because we canÃ¢â¬â¢t bear to let them go. And ... decline eff

Registered clinical trials make positive findings vanish : Nature News & Comment

2015-08-17T07:07:08Z

The launch of the clinicaltrials.gov registry in 2000 se... striking impact on reported trial results, according to ... that many researchers have been talking about online in ... A 1997 US law mandated the registryÃ¢â¬â¢s creation, requir ...

I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss. Here's How.

2015-05-28T16:46:14Z

Ã¢â¬ÅSlim by Chocolate!Ã¢â¬Â the headlines blared. A team of... had found that people on a low-carb diet lost weight 10 ... they ate a chocolate bar every day. It made the front pa... I am Johannes Bohannon, Ph.D. Well, actually my name is ... Other than

The strange new world of evidence-free government | Zoe Williams | Comment is free | The Guardian

2015-03-23T10:26:49Z

When ministersÃ¢â¬â¢ priorities are cost-cutting and short-... research into what actually works falls by the wayside Ã¢... consequences

Scientific method: Statistical errors : Nature News & Comment

2015-02-27T22:38:37Z

But then reality intervened. Sensitive to controversies over reproducibility, Motyl and his adviser, Brian Nosek, dec... the study. With extra data, the P value came out as 0.59... to the conventional level of significance, 0.05. The eff... disappeared

Automatic Statistician

2014-11-05T11:53:10Z

Making sense of data is one of the great challenges of t... we live in. While it is becoming easier to collect and s... data, from personal medical data, to scientific data, to... commercial data, there are relatively few people trained... and machine

xkcd: Frequency

2014-02-17T17:32:51Z

Frequency |< < Prev Random ... Frequency Frequency Frequency Frequency Frequency

Data-driven science is a failure of imagination | R you cereal?

2013-01-06T13:37:43Z

But most importantly, data-driven science is less intell... then hypothesis-driven science. Data mining is sweet, an... Plotting multivariate data, maps, Ã¢â¬ÅrelationshipsÃ¢â¬Â an... visualizations is hip and catchy, everybody can understa... thinking ab

Facts & Formulae leaflets | mathstore.ac.uk

2012-08-03T12:32:19Z

The future of prediction - Ideas - The Boston Globe

2012-01-12T08:58:04Z

About - Statistical Analysis - Stack Exchange

2011-03-08T18:05:51Z

This is a free, community driven Q&A for statisticians, ... miners and data visualization experts.

BBC News - Can you count the packets of crisps?

2011-01-06T15:32:37Z

BBC - BBC Four Programmes - The Joy of Stats

2011-01-06T15:26:26Z

Bayesian inference and maximum likelihood

2008-08-09T16:05:12Z

Bayes Theorem and Maximum Likelihood

2008-08-09T16:03:13Z

So far we have been thinking of the probability for gett... know that the mean value should be . Now suppose we make... get counts, but we don't know anything about , except t... nonnegative, of course. We may turn the question around ... the most li

KDD-2002: Program Committee

2007-08-06T17:38:27Z

Multi-Relational Data Mining (MRDM) is the multi-discipl... with knowledge discovery from relational databases consi... tables. Mining data which consists of complex/structured... falls within the scope of this field, since the normaliz... of such obj

Quantitative Population Ecology

2006-09-21T12:52:27Z

Statistical tables 1. t-statistics 2. Chi-square statistics 3. F-statistics, P=0.05 ... 5. F-statistics, P=0.001

Chi-Squared

2006-09-21T12:51:39Z

Critical Values for the Chi-Squared Distribution

SSJ: Stochastic Simulation in Java

2006-09-21T12:50:15Z

SSJ is a Java library for stochastic simulation, develop... DÃÂ©partement d'Informatique et de Recherche OpÃÂ©rationne... UniversitÃÂ© de MontrÃÂ©al. It provides facilities for generating uniform and nonuni ... applying quasi-Monte Carlo methods, collecting

umontreal.iro.lecuyer.probdist (Java Libraries for Stochastic Simulation)

2006-09-21T12:49:46Z

Package umontreal.iro.lecuyer.probdist This package contains a set of Java classes providing me ...

Critical Values for Significance Tests

2006-09-05T19:00:20Z

Critical Values for Significance Tests

Statistics

2005-12-18T13:55:08Z

Statistics is the science and practice of developing hum... through the use of empirical data. It is based soundly o... theory which is a branch of applied mathematics. Within ... theory, randomness and uncertainty are modelled by proba... Statistical

Free Statistical Tools on the WEB

2005-12-18T13:54:06Z

ISI - International Statistical Institute Free Statistical Tools on the WEB

Information Technology Services

2005-12-18T13:53:28Z

General FAQ #25: Handling missing or incomplete data Question: I have a database that contains records with incom ... participants did not complete all of the availab ... How should I handle this problem?

Snip!t channel - Alan Dix: Channels > statistics

Unsure Calculator

How a magician-mathematician revealed a casino loophole - BBC Future

Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis

When You Fall in Love, This Is What Facebook Sees - The Atlantic

The Scottish Scoundrel Who Changed How We See Data - Atlas Obscura

Opinion: Big-Data Algorithms Are Manipulating Us All | WIRED

Incentivizing Reproducibility | October 2016 | Communications of the ACM

Tax Research UK ÃÂ» The Conservatives have been the biggest borrowers over the last 70 years

How politicians poisoned statistics - FT.com

xkcd: Significant

Statisticians issue warning over misuse of P values : Nature News & Comment

Statistics: P values are just the tip of the iceberg : Nature News & Comment

Ten ironic rules for non-statistical reviewers

The Truth Wears Off - The New Yorker

Registered clinical trials make positive findings vanish : Nature News & Comment

I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss. Here's How.

The strange new world of evidence-free government | Zoe Williams | Comment is free | The Guardian

Scientific method: Statistical errors : Nature News & Comment

Automatic Statistician

xkcd: Frequency

Data-driven science is a failure of imagination | R you cereal?

Facts & Formulae leaflets | mathstore.ac.uk

The future of prediction - Ideas - The Boston Globe

About - Statistical Analysis - Stack Exchange

BBC News - Can you count the packets of crisps?

BBC - BBC Four Programmes - The Joy of Stats

Bayesian inference and maximum likelihood

Bayes Theorem and Maximum Likelihood

KDD-2002: Program Committee

Quantitative Population Ecology

Chi-Squared

SSJ: Stochastic Simulation in Java

umontreal.iro.lecuyer.probdist (Java Libraries for Stochastic Simulation)

Critical Values for Significance Tests

Statistics

Free Statistical Tools on the WEB

Information Technology Services

Tax Research UK ÃÂ» The Conservatives have been the biggest borrowers over the last 70 years