Nick Cox

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What misused statistical terms are worth correcting?

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

May 22, 2015

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

Jun 18, 2014

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

Dec 1, 2015

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

Dec 11, 2014

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Can using the IQR/Median help with this problem?

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Data vs. Information. What’s the difference between these two terms?

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Plots to judge data that is a bit asymmetric

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versus (vs.): how to properly use this word in data analysis

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