Understanding the meaning of a confidence interval can take a little effort. The key idea is we want to infer findings from a study to subjects who were not part of the study. Sometimes, reading explanations in different words can help. Let’s pause in our series and see how others have explained what confidence intervals mean: Harvey Motulsky: The true
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I have been coding with Python for several years and I only recently took the time to learn about Python environments. Now that I understand them, I can see why they are so useful, especially in this day and age of large team collaborations, research reproducibility, and sharing data and code when research results are published. The purpose of this
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Data which exist in categories that only have 2 possible values are known as binary data. “Yes” or “No” survey responses, dead or alive, male or female, etc. are examples of binary values. These data can be expressed as proportions (e.g. the proportion of male students in a class), are known as binomial variables, and follow a binomial distribution. The
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Most introductory statistics courses include a section explaining Type I (false positive) and Type II (false negative) errors in hypothesis testing. If you have been through such courses, you would have learned that the tolerance for Type I error is set by the significance level (alpha =0.05; the usual default) while Type II error is controlled by statistical power which
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