Peter Flom

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I'm a statistical consultant to graduate students and researchers in fields including the behavioral and health sciences. I've assisted with review of articles, and with preparation of grants, dissertations and papers.


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Statistics Jokes
jul 6 '11 at 23:18
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What is the meaning of “All models are wrong, but some are useful”
apr 27 at 10:25
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What is normality?
oct 21 '11 at 20:16
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Is it ever good to increase significance level?
mar 6 '12 at 20:25
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How to do logistic regression subset selection?
mar 15 '11 at 11:20
16
Is median fairer than mean?
feb 6 '11 at 15:51
13
Which “mean” to use and when?
feb 19 '12 at 22:25
12
Does causation imply correlation?
apr 11 '12 at 20:32
12
If mean is so sensitive, why use it in the first place?
aug 14 '11 at 12:56
11
Why do coefficients and significance levels change so much in my OLS? Do I need MIXED model instead?
apr 22 at 21:59
11
Is there a simple way of detecting outliers?
sep 24 at 1:01
11
How to combine annual rainfall data with specific forecast of known accuracy to predict weather for a particular day?
sep 14 at 9:52
11
Choosing the best model from among different “best” models
oct 26 '11 at 12:00
10
Detecting outliers using standard deviations
sep 26 at 11:32
10
What's the difference between mathematical statistics and statistics?
jul 10 '12 at 10:29
10
Multiple dependant variables in logistic regression
jun 21 '11 at 11:46
10
Problems with pie charts
mar 31 '11 at 10:50
9
Fallacy in p-value definition
may 28 at 11:16
9
Zero-inflated count models in R: what is the real advantage?
dec 6 at 12:18
9
Identifying fraudulent questionnaires
oct 9 at 14:01
9
How do I evaluate standard deviation?
feb 23 '12 at 13:36
9
Whether to delete cases that are flagged as outliers by statistical software when performing multiple regression?
sep 11 '11 at 9:43
8
Should I expect it to be a chicken or a penguin?
may 5 at 20:27
8
How to determine trend strength from linear regression slope?
mar 24 at 19:50
8
Sum of squares of residuals instead of sum of residuals
jan 27 at 14:23
8
Why use logged variables?
aug 2 at 10:59
8
How to annoy a statistical referee?
apr 11 '12 at 20:45
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Effect size as the hypothesis for significance testing
feb 24 '12 at 21:27
8
Interpreting main effect and interaction
dec 16 '11 at 11:17
8
Famous statistician quotes
may 27 '11 at 18:21
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