Questions tagged [group-differences]
Group differences broadly refer to statistics which quantify the differences between two or more subpopulations.
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How can I compare how significant is the difference between three or more distributions of count data?
I am researching whether software developers use different numbers of communication channels when performing different activities. Therefore, I would like to know whether, depending on the activity, ...
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The difference between means in t-test
When the sample size is large, the results tend to be statistically significant even when there is a small difference between the means of two groups. however, sometimes we see the results are not ...
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Group comparison for bivariate distributions
For two groups A and B that consist of n and m individual samples. Each individual sample has a unique 2-dimensional joint probability density functions (PDFs)of two variables. These PDFs are ...
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How can I test whether columns of 1s and 0s are significantly different from one another? [closed]
I have three columns of 1's and 0's which essentially represent whether a particular variable was significant for each of the three columns.
You can imagine my table of data looks like this:
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Test for difference from 0 for non-normal distribution
I'm using an agent based model to study disease transmission. After the initial outbreak, percentage of population infected decreases to zero. I'm looking for a rigorous way to choose when the % ...
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Comparison of two groups of time-series
I have time series data collected from two sensors. Suppose that they are microphone recordings from a man and a woman. Each signal, e.g. the one below, is 5000 samples. They don't share some ...
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Mixed models. Random slopes only, mean and group centering?
Are random intercepts a theoretical/practical prerequisite to random slopes? Why?
I have a three level (rep measures) mixed model where I wouldn't expect lvl 3 variation in initial status of outcome ...
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Real (not rounded) Lower and Upper limits of groups of frequency distribution and Median for infinitely continuous data
From here on page 5: https://www.pbarrett.net/techpapers/percentiles.pdf
So how can both be correct – yet seem to be more appropriate under different conditions? The clue is spread throughout the ...
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Whether there is significant difference between the slopes of different gender groups
The last question I have posted here:
Whether there is significant difference between two gender groups
There are 16 people in the dataset(using subjectID to ...
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Test that predicts group membership from multi-variate data?
Context: Zoology undergrad dissertation. The format of my results will be % time individual birds spent doing certain activities (and possibly number of times an activity such as pecking was performed)...
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Whether there is significant difference between two gender groups
A data set contains 5 columns:
There are 16 people in the dataset(using subjectID to identify them). Each year, when these people were ages 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15, they provided us a score $y$. We ...
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Standardized Difference to compare prevalence between 4 groups
In this article, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03610910902859574 Peter Austin describes how to calculate the standardized difference between two groups, pg 1229 and pg 1230.
However am ...
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Effect size on the difference between group differences (ΔA-B vs ΔA-C) using R
I am trying to calculate effect sizes, but all I can find on the web relates only to the effect size of the difference between two groups. What I am interested in, is the effect size of the difference ...
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Male-female height difference estimation from thresholds
Introduction. Assume that two populations $A$ and $B$ are distributed with normal distributions $N(\mu_A, \sigma_A^2)$ and $N(\mu_B, \sigma_B^2)$.
This is a general problem, but as an example, I will ...
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Estimation of substitution effect
I have a market with three goods: PRODUCT_I,PRODUCT_II, PRODUCT_III.
PRODUCT_I is banned by a policy, and its sales brought down to 0.
I want to estimate to what extent PRODUCT_II and/or PRODUCT_III ...
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How to estimate the confidence interval of the difference of means?
I have two sets of measurements (repeated measurements of two processes, let's call them $X=\{X_i\}_{0...n}$ and $Y=\{Y_i\}_{0...m}$), and I would like to estimate (with confidence interval) the ...
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Grouped data as independent variable for continuous outcome
I have an independent variable grouped into irregularly sized classes (0, 1-5, 6-10, 11-20, >20), a continuous dependent variable, and several control variables.
So far I've been trying to stay close ...
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Which Test should i run to check if there is any difference between variables?
I am analyzing one data set that contains 200 observations and contains information about two types or murders. It has 49 variables and I am interested in checking whether there is any difference ...
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Differences between sexes across months with repeated IDs
I'm trying to figure out the best way to analyze the difference between sexes and across months for the means of a specific behavior (most individuals measured have repeated measures across the 5 ...
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Comparing groups of empirical probability density functions
I'm a neuroscientist approaching doing some complex statistics and can't find anyone to point me in the right direction of what I need. I'm happy to read around the subject, I just don't know enough ...
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What is the variance of the standardized mean difference of two independent studies?
I have computed the standardized mean differences for a pair of independent samples. But when I Googled for the "variance of the standardized mean difference" I got rather confusing results, with ...
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What can I use to compute a similarity (or diversity) index for a sample with “multidimensional” attributes?
Current problem: We have a batch of $n$ items for which we capture their details with $m$ attributes. It could look something like this:
The goal is to compute an "index" that says how "similar" this ...
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Difference between two dependent variable with two covariates
I have two groups (A & B).
First step
In each group, I am trying to find the relationships between dependent variable (flow) and 2 covariates (total rain and preflow).
Should I:
Do a multiple ...
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Compare slopes between two groups of equal size
I want to compare how does a dependent variable (total flow) changes with a covariate (total rain) between two groups (stream A & B). Usually, i would go with ANCOVA. But these groups have the ...
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Appropriate method to assess scatter or variation in groups with dramatically different means
I am working on a product fabrication process, and I want to demonstrate the consistency of my product. To do this, I am trying to measure the variation in the extent to which a biological material is ...
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How do you perform Wilcoxon matched-pair sign-rank test in Stata using a grouping variable? [closed]
I'm performing a diagnostic method comparison study in which I have 2 groups; one assessed using the experimental method, and one assessed using the standard method. These groups are matched, with 3 ...
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Analysis of repeated measures at different timing
I'd like to ask how can analyse data of different patients if they have repeated measures at different timing. How can I group repeated measures to each patient in order to have descriptive data of ...
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How does one show differences in groups with replicates over time in R
I have daily Hydrogen production data and nutrient uptake data. I would like to show differences in treatments for Hydrogen production over the course of 3 days. Basically identify which group ...
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Test selection: Biserial correlation versus independent samples t-test?
My stats textbook is telling me that you can use a Pearson's r with a dichotomous variable and a continuous dependent variable, which is known as a biserial correlation (or point-biserial if the ...
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How to define the cut off point?
I have population of 218 people operated on after a certain event. They are operated on from day 30 to day 911 after the event . Some of them were OK (0) and some got a complication (1). I would like ...
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Detecting significant changes in groups of values over certain ranges of time-series
Below is an example of data output. It represents indicies [y-axis] calculated for 52 weeks in a range of 64 years. Group of 64 years is classified and several years are represented with blue, some ...
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T-test for differentially expressed proteins in R?
I hope I am asking to the right place. I am currently analyzing some Mass Spectometry data of 2 mutant phenotypes and the WT with 5 biological replicates each.
I have normalized the abundance values ...
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Pair-wise ANOVA or non-parametric comparison
I'm doing an experiment with 7 groups (batches) of 12 measurements of a certain chemical, where one group (b0) is considered the baseline case. The research question is to find out which groups have ...
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Statistics to show the differences in population of the sample and city and by sex
Hoping for some help. I am trying to run some statistics for demographics from the results of a survey. I have male/female percentages as a result of the survey (45.1/54.9) compared to male/female ...
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Comparing sum of values of two groups
I have a question about how to make a comparison between the aggregate values of two experimental groups.
Say that in an experiment with a control group and a treatment I collect the number of times ...
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Is this a matched pairs data set?
A review problem for one of my daughter's statistics classes: The arm span and height of 10 individuals is measured in order to test the hypothesis that arm-span equals height in humans. Perform an ...
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How do you test if three means significantly differ from each other using an F test?
I know the means, sample sizes, and standard deviations of three samples drawn independently from three populations. I need to test whether they differ significantly from each other using an $F$ ...
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Survey subgroup difference from entire survey or excluding the subgroup?
I have a survey with categorical (nominal) questions. I want to compare subgroups to see if any are noticeably different from each other.
Suppose they are ranking their preferred three from ten ...
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Comparing statistics over win/loss
I have data from a league over a season. The season was conducted as a round robin so everyone played each other. Each game was a best of 5 so at the least a game produced 3 matches and at the most ...
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Porbability of an observation to belong to a specific group
I have a group with about 200 observations,and each observation has 2 variables (which are the first two components of PLS, if it matters). It looks like this:
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Find significantly differences between multi-variant groups
I have 11 groups, each consist of about 200 observations, and each observation has 2 variables (which are actually the first two PLS components if it makes any difference). Each group is a substance ...
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analyzing difference between two groups by other numeric factor with only (0-5) values
I want to analyze the difference between two groups by other factor. the factor is numeric with distribution (0-5) only. using Stata® what would be the best test to estimate the significance of ...
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Weibull coefficients comparison [closed]
I´ve 838 sets of data that represents points distributed by height. Those that can be fitted by Weibull function. So, I normalized them and adjusted the corresponding distribution function, saving it´...
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Differences between exponential distribution with very different n sizes
I need to test for the differences between three groups of observations (grouped along $x$-axis), which appear to follow an exponential distribution along the $y$-axis dimension (see example fig.). ...
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Comparing the results of 2 different type but identical samples from 2 devices
I have 2 columns of of the concentration of fat in fish which is measured by 2 different labs. I need to know if the difference of the results from these 2 labs are statistically significant. The data ...
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Sample size for 2 groups vs. one large group to measure spread?
I hope this question can simply be answered conceptually, without a specific dataset.
I am planning a new study, for which I will be testing the effects of depression on a memory task. I'm currently ...
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Comparing the means of two groups when a large number of data points have the same value
I have data on the profitability of wagers made according to two different strategies.
One strategy was to bet $1 on the underdogs in each of a sequence of sporting matches. They have data like this: ...
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Time Series sampled at varying frequency - Employ Linear Mixed Model to compare trends?
I hope that this question has not be asked like this elsewhere, if so I could not find it during my google research..
I have the following problem: I have data sampled from different sensors("ID") ...
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How to test for difference in weighted proportion difference? (and average weighted proportion differences)
Suppose I have a survey where respondents rate different questions as positive (1), negative (-1), or neutral (0), and their responses are given a different weight based on which job they have and ...
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Randomized Treatment within treated group
I don't know if this situation has a particular name. I'll just give the example and my question.
Suppose we have two naturally concurring groups, $A$ and $B$. By that, I mean there is a naturalistic ...
