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statistical significance

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Tuesday, 26 June 2012, at 5:03 p.m.

In Response To: statistical significance (Bill Phipps)

As I mentioned recently, Iancho reports that Stick's lower and upper quartiles are 1.19 and 2.64 respectively.

It's a bit misleading to talk about "statistical significance" in this context, by the way. Strictly speaking, that term should only be used when a hypothesis is made at the outset and some experiments are performed to test the hypothesis. Looking retrospectively at results that have already been obtained and claiming "statistical significance" is always a scientifically suspect procedure.

Messages In This Thread

• Into the Fray
  Bill Phipps -- Monday, 25 June 2012, at 11:38 p.m.
  • Into the Fray
    John O'Hagan -- Tuesday, 26 June 2012, at 2:04 a.m.
    • Into the Fray
      Jake Jacobs -- Tuesday, 26 June 2012, at 3:10 a.m.
    • Into the Fray
      Joe Russell -- Tuesday, 26 June 2012, at 4:02 a.m.
      • Another subject
        Joe Russell -- Tuesday, 26 June 2012, at 4:27 a.m.
        • Another subject
          Henrik Bukkjaer -- Wednesday, 27 June 2012, at 9:57 p.m.
      • Into the Fray
        Joe Russell -- Tuesday, 26 June 2012, at 9:24 a.m.
        • Into the Fray
          neilkaz -- Tuesday, 26 June 2012, at 2:41 p.m.
        • Into the Fray
          Phil Simborg -- Tuesday, 26 June 2012, at 10:16 p.m.
          • Into the Fray
            Henrik Bukkjaer -- Wednesday, 27 June 2012, at 10:57 p.m.
            • Into the Fray
              Bill Riles -- Wednesday, 27 June 2012, at 11:09 p.m.
              • OT: PJT analogy
                Henrik Bukkjaer -- Wednesday, 27 June 2012, at 11:36 p.m.
                • OT: PJT analogy
                  Christian Munk-Christensen -- Thursday, 28 June 2012, at 6:54 a.m.
                  • OT: PJT analogy
                    Stick -- Thursday, 28 June 2012, at 7:20 a.m.
      • Into the Fray
        Christian Munk-Christensen -- Tuesday, 26 June 2012, at 2:05 p.m.
      • Into the Fray
        christian munk-christensen -- Tuesday, 26 June 2012, at 9:12 p.m.
  • Novi MI Jul 4-8
    neilkaz -- Tuesday, 26 June 2012, at 2:57 a.m.
    • Unquestionably Strong
      Bill Phipps -- Tuesday, 26 June 2012, at 11:00 a.m.
      • Unquestionably Strong
        Colin Owen -- Tuesday, 26 June 2012, at 11:31 a.m.
        • Unquestionably Strong
          christian munk-christensen -- Tuesday, 26 June 2012, at 5:20 p.m.
          • Unquestionably Strong
            David Wells -- Tuesday, 26 June 2012, at 5:39 p.m.
            • Unquestionably Strong
              Jake Jacobs -- Thursday, 28 June 2012, at 4:05 a.m.
    • MCG
      Bill Phipps -- Tuesday, 26 June 2012, at 11:06 a.m.
  • Into the Fray
    Bill Riles -- Tuesday, 26 June 2012, at 3:30 a.m.
  • Into the Fray
    Bob Koca -- Tuesday, 26 June 2012, at 4:13 a.m.
    • statistical significance
      Bill Phipps -- Tuesday, 26 June 2012, at 10:44 a.m.
      • statistical significance
        Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 26 June 2012, at 5:03 p.m.
        • statistical significance
          Bob Koca -- Tuesday, 26 June 2012, at 10:15 p.m.
        • statistical significance
          PINO -- Friday, 29 June 2012, at 2:14 p.m.
  • Into the Fray
    Casper van der Tak -- Tuesday, 26 June 2012, at 8:11 a.m.
  • My own experience
    Bill Phipps -- Tuesday, 26 June 2012, at 11:26 a.m.
    • DMP
      David Rockwell -- Tuesday, 26 June 2012, at 1:46 p.m.
      • DMP
        Bill Phipps -- Tuesday, 26 June 2012, at 2:12 p.m.
        • DMP
          Henrik Bukkjaer -- Wednesday, 27 June 2012, at 11:29 p.m.
      • DMP ratings GNU vs XG
        neilkaz -- Tuesday, 26 June 2012, at 2:37 p.m.
        • DMP ratings GNU vs XG
          David Rockwell -- Tuesday, 26 June 2012, at 3:19 p.m.
        • DMP ratings GNU vs XG
          Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 26 June 2012, at 4:59 p.m.
          • DMP ratings GNU vs XG
            eXtreme Gammon -- Tuesday, 26 June 2012, at 6:24 p.m.
      • PR vs ER
        Maik Stiebler -- Tuesday, 26 June 2012, at 2:38 p.m.
        • PR vs ER
          Daniel Murphy -- Wednesday, 27 June 2012, at 2:24 a.m.
          • PR vs ER
            Henrik Bukkjaer -- Wednesday, 27 June 2012, at 9:20 p.m.
            • PR vs ER
              Henrik Bukkjaer -- Wednesday, 27 June 2012, at 9:33 p.m.
      • OT: DMP PRs vs. Cubeful PRs
        Henrik Bukkjaer -- Wednesday, 27 June 2012, at 9:44 p.m.
        • OT: DMP PRs vs. Cubeful PRs
          Maik Stiebler -- Thursday, 28 June 2012, at 8:00 a.m.
          • OT: DMP PRs vs. Cubeful PRs
            Henrik Bukkjaer -- Sunday, 1 July 2012, at 10:13 p.m.
            • OT: DMP PRs vs. Cubeful PRs
              Maik Stiebler -- Sunday, 1 July 2012, at 10:43 p.m.
    • Stick is a DMP specialist *NM*
      benf -- Tuesday, 26 June 2012, at 3:01 p.m.
  • Into the Fray
    Peter -- Tuesday, 26 June 2012, at 12:32 p.m.
  • Into the Fray
    Phil Simborg -- Tuesday, 26 June 2012, at 7:44 p.m.
    • Into the Fray
      christian munk-christensen -- Tuesday, 26 June 2012, at 8:07 p.m.
      • Into the Fray
        Phil Simborg -- Tuesday, 26 June 2012, at 10:08 p.m.
        • Into the Fray
          Daniel Murphy -- Tuesday, 26 June 2012, at 10:47 p.m.
    • Into the Fray
      benf -- Tuesday, 26 June 2012, at 8:09 p.m.
  • Into the Fray
    falafel -- Wednesday, 27 June 2012, at 12:24 a.m.
    • Into the Fray
      David Wells -- Wednesday, 27 June 2012, at 1:42 a.m.
      • Into the Fray
        Steve Mellen -- Wednesday, 27 June 2012, at 3:14 p.m.
  • Into the Fray
    leemo -- Thursday, 28 June 2012, at 2:59 p.m.