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Monthly Archives: September 2010
It was Professor Plot in the Diagram with a Graph
You probably were taught how to graph data in high school. Depending on your work, you may frequently plot data yourself or look at graphs prepared by others. Even if you don’t use graphs on your job, you may run … Continue reading
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Tagged axis, cats, charts, diagrams, graphs, jargon, McCandless, measurement scales, number of samples, plots, statistical analysis, statistics, stats with cats, Tufte
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It’s All in the Technique
You can’t understand your data unless you control extraneous variance attributable to the way you select samples, the way you measure variable values, and any influences of the environment in which you are working. Using the concepts of reference, replication … Continue reading
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Tagged bias, blinding, cats, control sample, covariate, jargon, measurement, placebo, precision, samples, SOP, statistical analysis, statistics, stats with cats, uncertainty, variability, variance, variance control
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The Measure of a Measure
If you can measure a phenomenon, you can analyze the phenomenon. But if you don’t measure the phenomenon accurately and precisely, you won’t be able to analyze the phenomenon accurately and precisely. So in planning a statistical analysis, once you … Continue reading
The Heart and Soul of Variance Control
You can’t understand data without controlling the variance. You can’t control variance without understanding the data. Variance Doesn’t Go Away By Ignoring It In an ideal universe, your dataset would contain no bias and only the natural variability you want … Continue reading
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Tagged bias, cats, precision, randomization, replication, standardization, statistical analysis, statistics, stats with cats, surveys, uncertainty, variability, variance
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