{"id":24516,"date":"2017-09-14T15:56:08","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T20:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=24516"},"modified":"2017-09-14T15:56:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T20:56:08","slug":"how-to-do-statistics-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/14\/how-to-do-statistics-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"How to do Statistics Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

Telling people that they are doing statistics wrong is a cottage industry that I usually want nothing to do with, for various reasons including the fact that the naysayers are often blindly repeating stuff they heard but do not understand. But, Alex Reinhart, in Statistics Done Wrong: The Woefully Complete Guide<\/a>\"\", does not do that, and this is a book that is worth reading for anyone who either generates or needs to interpret statistics.<\/p>\n

Most of the 10 chapters that address specific technical problems with statistics, where they are misused or misinterpreted, are very helpful in guiding a reader in how to think about statistics, and certain fallacies or common errors may well apply to a particular person’s work on a regular basis. I’ve put the table of contents below so you can see how this may apply to you. This is a worthy addition to the bookshelf. Get this book and stop doing your stats wrong!<\/p>\n

The author is a grad student and physical scientist at Carnegie Mellon.<\/p>\n

Here’s the table of contents:<\/p>\n

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Statistical Significance
\nChapter 2: Statistical Power and Underpowered Statistics
\nChapter 3: Pseudoreplication: Choose Your Data Wisely
\nChapter 4: The p Value and the Base Rate Fallacy
\nChapter 5: Bad Judges of Significance
\nChapter 6: Double-Dipping in the Data
\nChapter 7: Continuity Errors
\nChapter 8: Model Abuse
\nChapter 9: Researcher Freedom:Good Vibrations?
\nChapter 10: Everybody Makes Mistakes
\nChapter 11: Hiding the Data
\nChapter 12: What Can Be Done?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Telling people that they are doing statistics wrong is a cottage industry that I usually want nothing to do with, for various reasons including the fact that the naysayers are often blindly repeating stuff they heard but do not understand. But, Alex Reinhart, in Statistics Done Wrong: The Woefully Complete Guide, does not do that, … Continue reading How to do Statistics Wrong<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[686,1146,40,1392,1097],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6nq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}