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Semi-off topic - as someone who does a lot of data analysis with sql but has never taken a statistics course - can anyone recommend any resources about where to

• BoiledCabbage 9y ago
  https://www.coursera.org/specializations/statistics https://www.coursera.org/specializations/statistics Skip all the programming exercises in R - just watch the videos and solve the multiple choice problems. Supplement with the decent opensource text book it links to. Each "week" is likely only 1-2hrs of work. ~5 weeks per course. Only really need the first 2 courses: . Introduction to Probability and Data . Inferential Statistics
• madhadron 9y ago
  I wrote a couple papers for clinicians introducing p-values and the necessary apparatus to understand them correctly: http://madhadron.com/posts/2016-01-25-p_values_for_clinicians.html http://madhadron.com/posts/2016-01-25-p_values_for_clinician...
  • nonbel 9y ago
    >"The P-value is the smallest relevant value of α given your data (i.e., the smallest probability of making a Type I error and deciding there is an effect when there isn't one)." Nope, the p-value calculation assumes there is no effect. How can it be the probability there is an effect?
    • madhadron 9y ago
      Reading comprehension: "deciding that there is an effect when there isn't one."