Translating Statistics to Make Decisions: A Guide for the Non-Statistician

Index

A

1. Accept the null

2. Advice

3. Aesthetics

4. Alternative hypothesis

5. Analysis of variance (ANOVA)

6. Arithmetic mean

SeeLocation, mean

1. Assumptions

2. Autocorrelation

B

1. Bartlett’s test

2. Bias-reduction binomial-response GLM (BRGLM)

3. Binomial GLM

4. Bivariate data

C

1. Categorical data

SeeQualitative data, nominal data

1. Chi square test

2. Clopper–Pearson interval

SeeConfidence interval, exact method

1. Coefficients

2. Color

3. Communication

4. Computer experiments

   1. deterministic

   2. Latin hypercube sample (LHS)

   3. low discrepancy sequence

   4. stochastic

   5. uniform design

5. Confidence interval

   1. asymptotic normal interval

   2. exact method

   3. Wilson interval

6. Confounding

7. Contingency tables

8. Correlation

9. Covariance

D

1. Data collection

2. Descriptive statistics

3. Diagnostic plots

4. 3D

5. Dispersion parameter

6. Distribution

   1. binomial

   2. exponential

   3. gamma

   4. Gaussian

   5. Poisson

E

1. Equal variances ...