Conceptual and Statistical Knowledge

 

Stat 545

This site is about everything that comes up during data analysis except for statistical modelling and inference. This might strike you as strange, given R’s statistical roots. First, let me assure you we believe that modelling and inference are …

Statistical errors: P values, the ‘gold standard’ of statistical validity, are not as reliable as many scientists assume

P values, the 'gold standard' of statistical validity, are not as reliable as many scientists assume.

Statistical Evidence: A Likelihood Paradigm

Interpreting statistical data as evidence, Statistical Evidence: A Likelihood Paradigm focuses on the law of likelihood, fundamental to solving many of the problems associated with interpreting data in this way. Statistics has long neglected this …

Statistical Methods in Psychological Research Syllabus

A statistics book and tutorial about statistics

Statistical methods in psychology journals: Guidelines and explanations.

In the light of continuing debate over the applications of significance testing in psychology journals and following the publication of J. Cohen's (1994) article, the Board of Scientific Affairs (BSA) of the American Psychological Association (APA) …

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

A blog about statistics and open science

Statistical power analysis

A paper about statistical power

Statistical power and optimal design in experiments in which samples of participants respond to samples of stimuli

Researchers designing experiments in which a sample of participants responds to a sample of stimuli are faced with difficult questions about optimal study design. The conventional procedures of statistical power analysis fail to provide appropriate …

Statistical Power and the Testing of Null Hypotheses: A Review of Contemporary Management Research and Recommendations for Future Studies

The purpose of this study is to determine how well contemporary management research fares on the issue of statistical power with regard to studies specifically predicting null relationships between phenomena of interest. This power assessment differs …

Statistical power in operations management research

This paper discusses the need and importance of statistical power analysis in field-based empirical research in Production and Operations Management (POM) and related disciplines. The concept of statistical power analysis is explained in detail and …