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Advises on statistical analysis that are often useful in practice (but are not always guaranteed to work).
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"When to use boxplot and when barplot" rules (of thumb?)
Specifically for graphical illustration of ANOVA:
A box plot or bar chart is much better than nothing graphically for ANOVA, but as commonly plotted, both are indirect or incomplete as a graphical …
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Rule of Thumb meaning in statistics
van Belle book
Note an entire book: Statistical Rules of Thumb by Gerald van Belle.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470377963
I guess anybody with experience would rate some of va …
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Rules of thumb for "modern" statistics
Despite increasingly larger datasets and more powerful software, over-fitting models is a major danger to researchers, especially those who have not yet been burned by over-fitting. Over-fitting means …
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Rules of thumb for "modern" statistics
If the model won't converge easily and quickly, it could be the fault of the software. It is, however, much more common that your data are not suitable for the model or the model is not suitable for t …
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Rules of thumb for "modern" statistics
There are no criteria to choose information criteria.
Once someone says something like "The ?IC indicates this, but it is known often to give the wrong results" (where ? is any letter you like), you …