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why p = .048 should be rare (and why this feels counterintuitive)

This post discusses the why p value around .048 should be rare

Always use Welch t-test

This is a blogpost describing why we should use Welch t-test instead of Student t-test

Calculating the overlap of two normal distributions using monte carlo intergration

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 …

Data peeking without p-hacking

Blog post going over data peeking without p-hacking

Degrees of Freedom Tutorial

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 …

Distribution of p-values when comparing two groups

An interactive visualisation of the distribution of p-values when comparing two groups

Guide Your Students to Become Better Research Consumers

Blog post going over making undergraduate students better consumers of research

Interpreting confidence intervals

A blog about the visualisation of Confidence intervals

Interpreting Correlations: an interactive visualization

Correlation is one of the most widely used tools in statistics. The correlation coefficient summarizes the association between two variables. In this visualization I show a scatter plot of two variables with a given correlation. The variables are …

Retraction Watch: Michael LaCour archives

How easy is it to change people’s minds? In 2014, a Science study suggested that a short conversation could have a lasting impact on people’s opinions about gay marriage – but left readers disappointed when it was retracted only months later, after …
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