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This is quite nice! But does anyone else knows more useful websites such as this with down-to-earth explanations of statistical tools?
by navi54 11y ago
This is quite nice! But does anyone else knows more useful websites such as this with down-to-earth explanations of statistical tools?
- a_bonobo 11y agoI know of one book: Motulsky's Intuitive Biostatistics, very little formulas, much focus on upsides and downsides of various stats approaches, opinions etc.
- graycat 11y agoThat the K-S test works is some cute math by the father of modern probability A. N. Kolmogorov. But that test and many more are part of non-parametric, that is, distribution-free hypothesis testing. That statistics has long been popular in the social sciences. A major theme in such statistics is permutations. Another major theme, and more recent, is resampling. I first learned about such tests from a book that was sitting around the office, Sidney Siegel, Nonparametric Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences. These tests are all one dimensional. Once I published a paper on a distribution-free test that is multi-dimensional -- my paper may remain the only such. These days, see also the work of B. Efron and P. Diaconis. More can be done.
- lumpypua 11y agohttps://speakerdeck.com/jakevdp/statistics-for-hackers https://speakerdeck.com/jakevdp/statistics-for-hackers is great! HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10244950 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10244950