When considering any statistical tool I think it is useful to answer the following two practical questions: 1. "Does it give reasonable answers in realistic circumstances?" and 2. "Does it answer a question I am interested in?" In this post I explain …
I read this post over at the blog Cartesian Faith about Probability and Monte Carlo methods. The post describe how to numerically intregate using Monte Carlo methods. I thought the results looked cool so I used the method to calculate the overlap of …
A lot of researchers seem to be struggling with their understanding of the statistical concept of degrees of freedom. Most do not really care about why degrees of freedom are important to statistical tests, but just want to know how to calculate and …