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The Probability and Statistics Cookbook

239 pointsby kerckerover 8 years ago

6 comments

nonbelover 8 years ago
In section 13, I see they are still teaching the Fisher-Neyman Pearson hybrid (ie the null ritual). For a brief overview see [1]. To start you off: Fisher said the idea of power was nonsense[2], and Neyman-Pearson said a hypothesis is either rejected or not (there is no gradient of evidence for&#x2F;against).[3]<p>[1] Gigerenzer, G (November 2004). &quot;Mindless statistics&quot;. The Journal of Socio-Economics. 33 (5): 587–606. doi:10.1016&#x2F;j.socec.2004.09.033<p>[2] &#x27;The phrase &quot;errors of the second kind&quot;, although apparently only a harmless piece of techinical jargon, is useful as indicating the type of mental confusion in which it was coined.&#x27; -Ronald Fisher. &quot;Statistical Methods and Scientific Induction.&quot; Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B (Methodological) Vol. 17, No. 1 (1955), pp. 69-78 <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jstor.org&#x2F;stable&#x2F;2983785" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jstor.org&#x2F;stable&#x2F;2983785</a><p>[3] &#x27;no test based upon the theory of probability can by itself provide any valuable evidence of the truth or falsehood of that hypothesis.&#x27; -Neyman, J; Pearson, E. S. (January 1, 1933). &quot;On the Problem of the most Efficient Tests of Statistical Hypotheses&quot;. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A. 231 (694–706): 289–337. doi:10.1098&#x2F;rsta.1933.0009.
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mooneaterover 8 years ago
Cool, but I would call this a cheatsheet. Almost the inverse of a cookbook, which I think of as a set of &quot;how tos&quot; for tasks you want to accomplish.
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varlockover 8 years ago
Quite useful indeed! If I may, I&#x27;d love to see references for each concept.<p>I appreciate anyone can look &quot;sample space&quot; or &quot;parametric inference&quot; up on Google, but it&#x27;d take some time to find some authoritative source (especially for people like who do not work with stats every day). It&#x27;d be awesome if I could see a &quot;[1]&quot; and a reference (or list of references), either online or offline, where the concept is defined.
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DevonSAover 8 years ago
I&#x27;m struggling to understand the CDF for the discrete uniform distribution (line 1 of the first page). I think the equation is missing a &quot;+1&quot; in the denominator as otherwise it doesn&#x27;t make sense. Although it has been a while since I took a stats class, so I may be mistaken
geokonover 8 years ago
Anyone have a recommendation on a good statistic textbook?<p>Everything I&#x27;ve tried has been absolutely horrible except for &quot;An Introduction to Error Analysis&quot; by John Taylor (yeah the classical mechanics guy). Unfortunately it&#x27;s a bit basic...
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nevesover 8 years ago
Nice! Did anyone make a mobi file so I can read it in my Kindle? PDF s*cks!
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