Wednesday, January 16, 2013

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics



There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics -Marky Mark Twain




















An observation (~individual) defined:
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index.php/Glossary:Observation_unit

A sample (~population) defined:
http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/steps/glossary/sampling.html

"PCA principle components analysis is regression in more than two dimensions" - Francisco Moore

Repeated measures will be revisited and can be seen here:
http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/pub/Main/ClinStat/repmeas.PDF

Types of variables:
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/idams/advguide/Chapt1_3.htm

Meristic for fish people:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meristics

A paper on error and philosophy:
http://www.ets.org/Media/Research/pdf/PICANG12.pdf


'Never ever ever ever ever used a derived variable in stats.  Unless you have to.  Distributions get wonky. '  paraphrased  -Francisco B.G. Moore the University of Akron Summit on Statistical Analysis 1-16-13




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