Arm Yourself with Statistics Knowledge
November 14, 2013
So many of the world’s big decisions are based on statistics, yet the discipline remains mysterious or misunderstood by many. Alex Reinhart, a statistics PhD student at Carnegie Mellon, aims to rectify that situation with “Statistics Done Wrong: the Woefully Complete Guide.” Hey, everyone needs more math. Well, except search engine optimization experts. They are all set.
The description reads:
“Statistics Done Wrong is a guide to the most popular statistical errors and slip-ups committed by scientists every day, in the lab and in peer-reviewed journals. Many of the errors are prevalent in vast swathes of the published literature, casting doubt on the findings of thousands of papers. Statistics Done Wrong assumes no prior knowledge of statistics, so you can read it before your first statistics course or after thirty years of scientific practice. Dive in: the whole guide is available online!”
Yep, go to the link above to access this helpful text—the clickable table of contents is right there on that page. Reinhart notes that this work is constantly being improved, and you can sign up for updates through a box on the right of the page. The guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Check it out, and be ahead of the crowd when statistics rears its unwieldy head.
Cynthia Murrell, November 14, 2013
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