6k views

### What does a confidence interval (vs. a credible interval) actually express? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What, precisely, is a confidence interval? Yes, similar questions have been asked before, but many of the answers seem contradictory and don't address my issue. (Or my ...
7k views

### Hypothesis testing for a correlation that is zero or negative

I would like to test for a correlation that is zero or negative using the following hypothesis test: $H_0: p>0$ (Null hypothesis: the correlation is positive) $H_A: p\le0$ (Alternative hypothesis: ...
1k views

### Multiple testing and logistic regression

I want to perform a number of univariate regressions with different symptoms (e.g. fever, cough, sneezing) as the response variable and one categorical variable (which is always the same each time) as ...
1k views

### Interpreting a confidence interval.

If someone asks me to interpret the confidence interval (say at the level of a first graduate course in statistics) -- are there typical templates for such an interpretation. By typical templates I ...
2k views

### Putting a confidence interval on the mean of a very rare event

I'm simulating an extremely rare event (the detection of weighted photon packets in a highly absorbing material). For example, I may simulate the transmission of 1e9 photons and only detect 10 of them ...
311 views

### Does a confidence interval carry some extra error for non perfectly normal distributions?

I'm not trying to nitpick but I always want to make sure with stats that I clearly understand the delimitation between exact/theoretical measurements and "real life" measurements. Let's say for ...