Victor Loux Bookmarks Tag: statistics

37 bookmarks tagged “statistics

Histogram vs eCDF - Marc's Blog

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It's trivial to transform an eCDF into a histogram, by bucketing up first differences (fn+1 - fn). You can't go from the histogram to the eCDF so easily in general, because bucketing loses data.

What is A/A Testing, and Why Should Marketers Care?

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Are your A/B testing results entirely accurate? Learn why A/A testing can be beneficial, the pros and cons, and how to avoid false positive test results.

The Tyranny of Metrics by Jerry Z. Muller

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The Tyranny of Metrics book. Read 120 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. How the obsession with quantifying human performance threat...

Violence in Blue | Patrick Ball | Granta Magazine

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‘One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police.’ Patrick Ball measures the undocumented police killings in the United States.

Scientists rise up against statistical significance

nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00857-9
Valentin Amrhein, Sander Greenland, Blake McShane and more than 800 signatories call for an end to hyped claims and the dismissal of possibly crucial effects.