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As someone trained in mathematics I tend to use words precisely, as I would in a mathematical proof. For example, the word “function” has a particular definition in mathematics that is related to but different from the common definition. Statistics has the same issue, where words that have careful mathematical definitions also have colloquial definitions….
It is common in some academic fields to only report the p-value from a hypothesis test. For example, “We found a significant difference between the treatment group and control group (p=0.002)”. Some academic fields require including the test statistic value and other information, e.g., https://my.ilstu.edu/~jhkahn/apastats.html. As long as the hypothesis test was performed correctly reporting…
The following plot is from page 622 from a paper by Philip, et al., 2019. I’m pretty sure that this plot is of standard box plots, which show the median (line inside of the box), the first and third quartiles (the lower and upper edges of the box) and some measure of outliers (the “whiskers”)….
I posted here some thoughts on biomedical research from a newbie’s perspective. In my current role I work with many medical students and residents with varying levels of research (and statistics) experience. They are expected to produce publishable research products as part of their program while also training to be good physicians. That seems like…
As a relative newcomer to biomedical research, I’ve spent the better part of the last year and a half reading biomedical research journal articles. I was quickly shocked by the number of articles with unclear, incorrect, or otherwise poorly done statistical analyses. This article was one of the first search results from a Google search…
This is the first in a series of posts to support the decades long push by statisticians to move away from the null hypotheses significance testing (NHST) paradigm (e.g., “The results are statistically significant (p<0.05).”) to a more nuanced and comprehensive style of reporting statistical results. Here is a good starting point for background on…
Even though this is well documented on the web, I’ll add some details on my experience running Citrix Workspace app (Citrix Receiver) via Ubuntu 18.04. The explanation posted here worked for me at first, so I would start there. I would choose the Workspace App, which I believe is the updated version of the Citrix…