Which Statistics for Dummies book is best? Whether or not you are preparing for a course or need to use statistics for prospective employment, statistics is a valuable area of study that merges ...

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During his Ph.D. research, mathematician Tyron Lardy worked on a new approach to hypothesis testing. Instead of the traditional p-value, he uses so-called e-values. These turn out to be more ...

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Having data is only half the battle. How do you know your data actually means something? With some simple Python code, you can quickly check if differences in data are actually significant. In ...

Hypothesis testing is a formal procedure for investigating our ideas about the world using statistics. It is most often used by researchers to test predictions, called hypotheses. The first step in ...

At times we wish to examine statistical evidence, and determine whether it supports or contradicts a claim that has been made (or that we might wish to make) concerning the entire population. This is ...