Statistics Done Wrong The Woefully Complete Guide 1st Edition by Alex Reinhart 1593276206 9781593276201

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ISBN 10: 1593276206

ISBN 13: 9781593276201

Author: Alex Reinhart

 Scientific progress depends on good research, and good research needs good statistics. But statistical analysis is tricky to get right, even for the best and brightest of us. You’d be surprised how many scientists are doing it wrong. Statistics Done Wrong is a pithy, essential guide to statistical blunders in modern science that will show you how to keep your research blunder-free. You’ll examine embarrassing errors and omissions in recent research, learn about the misconceptions and scientific politics that allow these mistakes to happen, and begin your quest to reform the way you and your peers do statistics. You’ll find advice on: –Asking the right question, designing the right experiment, choosing the right statistical analysis, and sticking to the plan –How to think about p values, significance, insignificance, confidence intervals, and regression –Choosing the right sample size and avoiding false positives –Reporting your analysis and publishing your data and source code –Procedures to follow, precautions to take, and analytical software that can help Scientists: Read this concise, powerful guide to help you produce statistically sound research. Statisticians: Give this book to everyone you know. The first step toward statistics done right is Statistics Done Wrong.

Statistics Done Wrong The Woefully Complete Guide 1st Table of contents:

1. An Introduction to Statistical Significance

The Power of p Values

Psychic Statistics

Neyman-Pearson Testing

Have Confidence in Intervals

2. Statistical Power and Underpowered Statistics

The Power Curve

The Perils of Being Underpowered

Wherefore Poor Power?

Wrong Turns on Red

Confidence Intervals and Empowerment

Truth Inflation

Little Extremes

3. Pseudoreplication: Choose Your Data Wisely

Pseudoreplication in Action

Accounting for Pseudoreplication

Batch Biology

Synchronized Pseudoreplication

4. The P Value and the Base Rate Fallacy

The Base Rate Fallacy

A Quick Quiz

The Base Rate Fallacy in Medical Testing

How to Lie with Smoking Statistics

Taking Up Arms Against the Base Rate Fallacy

If At First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again

Red Herrings in Brain Imaging

Controlling the False Discovery Rate

5. Bad Judges of Significance

Insignificant Differences in Significance

Ogling for Significance

6. Double-Dipping in the Data

Circular Analysis

Regression to the Mean

Stopping Rules

7. Continuity Errors

Needless Dichotomization

Statistical Brownout

Confounded Confounding

8. Model Abuse

Fitting Data to Watermelons

Correlation and Causation

Simpson’s Paradox

9. Researcher Freedom: Good Vibrations?

A Little Freedom Is a Dangerous Thing

Avoiding Bias

10. Everybody Makes Mistakes

Irreproducible Genetics

Making Reproducibility Easy

Experiment, Rinse, Repeat

11. Hiding the Data

Captive Data

Obstacles to Sharing

Data Decay

Just Leave Out the Details

Known Unknowns

Outcome Reporting Bias

Science in a Filing Cabinet

Unpublished Clinical Trials

Spotting Reporting Bias

Forced Disclosure

12. What Can Be Done?

Statistical Education

Scientific Publishing

Your Job

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