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What misused statistical terms are worth correcting?

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Is it meaningful to calculate Pearson or Spearman correlation between two Boolean vectors?

answered Jun 18, 2014 at 8:13

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Why are there two spellings of "heteroskedastic" or "heteroscedastic"?

answered May 22, 2015 at 11:52

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How to determine whether or not the y-axis of a graph should start at zero?

answered Dec 1, 2015 at 21:37

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Visualising many variables in one plot

answered Jan 12, 2016 at 13:25

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What's a real-world example of "overfitting"?

answered Dec 11, 2014 at 16:13

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What are some examples of anachronistic practices in statistics?

answered Jun 18, 2016 at 8:55

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How to interpret the coefficient of variation?

answered Oct 9, 2014 at 23:49

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What aspects of the "Iris" data set make it so successful as an example/teaching/test data set

answered Nov 7, 2013 at 18:35

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"Best" series of colors to use for differentiating series in publication-quality plots

answered Oct 6, 2014 at 15:50

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Replacing outliers with mean

answered Nov 29, 2013 at 14:31

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Which are outliers?

answered Jan 26, 2022 at 15:26

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When to use gamma GLMs?

answered Aug 16, 2013 at 8:35

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Use of circular predictors in linear regression

answered Apr 27, 2015 at 8:33

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Calculate mean of ordinal variable

answered Aug 16, 2013 at 9:26

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How to present box plot with an extreme outlier?

answered Sep 8, 2014 at 22:37

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Benefits of using QQ-plots over histograms

answered Jul 11, 2013 at 12:11

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Difference between regression analysis and curve fitting

answered May 8, 2015 at 17:43

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Interpreting QQplot - Is there any rule of thumb to decide for non-normality?

answered Mar 6, 2015 at 10:26

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Should you ever standardise binary variables?

answered May 18, 2013 at 17:14

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How to find the mode of a probability density function?

answered Oct 9, 2015 at 1:38

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Extrapolation v. Interpolation

answered Jul 23, 2019 at 15:28

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Regression for a model of form $y=ax^k$?

answered May 23, 2013 at 1:59

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"-iles" terminology for the top half a percent

answered Sep 16, 2016 at 14:08

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Normalizations: dividing by mean

answered Feb 17, 2015 at 13:52

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Color and line thickness recommendations for line plots

answered Dec 5, 2014 at 16:18

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Why am I getting information entropy greater than 1?

answered Apr 13, 2016 at 12:07

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What's the history of box plots, and how did the "box and whiskers" design evolve?

answered Sep 30, 2018 at 7:48

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Does it make sense to use a date variable in a regression?

answered Jul 29, 2013 at 14:34

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"When to use boxplot and when barplot" rules (of thumb?)

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What misused statistical terms are worth correcting?

Is it meaningful to calculate Pearson or Spearman correlation between two Boolean vectors?

Why are there two spellings of "heteroskedastic" or "heteroscedastic"?

How to determine whether or not the y-axis of a graph should start at zero?

Visualising many variables in one plot

What's a real-world example of "overfitting"?

What are some examples of anachronistic practices in statistics?

How to interpret the coefficient of variation?

What aspects of the "Iris" data set make it so successful as an example/teaching/test data set

"Best" series of colors to use for differentiating series in publication-quality plots

Replacing outliers with mean

Which are outliers?

When to use gamma GLMs?

Use of circular predictors in linear regression

Calculate mean of ordinal variable

How to present box plot with an extreme outlier?

Benefits of using QQ-plots over histograms

Difference between regression analysis and curve fitting

Interpreting QQplot - Is there any rule of thumb to decide for non-normality?

Should you ever standardise binary variables?

How to find the mode of a probability density function?

Extrapolation v. Interpolation

Regression for a model of form $y=ax^k$?

"-iles" terminology for the top half a percent

Normalizations: dividing by mean

Color and line thickness recommendations for line plots

Why am I getting information entropy greater than 1?

What's the history of box plots, and how did the "box and whiskers" design evolve?

Does it make sense to use a date variable in a regression?

"When to use boxplot and when barplot" rules (of thumb?)