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Practical Predictive Analytics
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Practical Predictive Analytics

by Ralph Winters
June 2017
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
576 pages
15h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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P-values and effect sizes

There has always been this concern regarding p-values with small samples, however using data with large samples can also yield bad results, in that the p-value may be correct, but the magnitude of the change (the effect) is very small.

Take this example in which you are measuring the effect of winning between an average of $1,000,000 or $1,000,001 in a lottery.

We will generate two probability samples:

  • X contains 1 million observations with a mean value of 1,000,000
  • Y also contains 1 million observations but with a mean value of 1,000,001 and it is only a 1-unit difference

Generate a dataframe with X and Y and print some summary statistics:

 set.seed(1020) lottery <- data.frame( cbind(x=rnorm(n=1000000,1000000,100),y=rnorm(1000000,1000001,100) ...
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