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The Promise and Problems of the P-Value
Mini Paper from the October 2015 Statistics Digest
This Mini-Paper will help you to understand p-values in a more intuitive way and to avoid a very common misinterpretation that can cost you money and credibility. It will discuss how p-values and the null..
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 2015-10
- Keywords:P-Value, Hypothesis Testing, Significance Levels
Sample Sizes and Marketing Campaigns
This paper compares two commonly used methods for determining sample sizes in marketing campaigns and provides guidelines for selecting the best method to satisfy business objectives...
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 2008-01
- Keywords:Sample Size, Type 1 error, Type 2 error, Confidence interval, Hypothesis testing, Sample cost
Candy Exercise – Simple Data Analysis
Taken from Fall 2003 Newsletter
This fun filled candy exercise is intended to demonstrate the use of basic statistical tools and Statistical Thinking...
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 2003-09
- Keywords:Statistical thinking, Hypothesis Testing, Signal-to-noise ratio, P-value, Chi-squared Test, Control charts, I and MR chart, P chart, ANOVA
Using On-Line Process Data to Improve Quality
Youden Address Appearing in Winter 1996 Newsletter
This Youden address identifies the urgency for statisticians to take advantage of the abundance of on-line process data and come up with the next generation of improved multivariate control charts...
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 1996-01
- Keywords:Principal components, Projection latent structures (PLS), Control charts, Covariance, Collinearity, Signal-to-noise ratio, Squared prediction error (SPE), Assignable cause, Common cause, Hotelling’s T2 statistic, Control limits, Hypothesis testing
Resampling: Transforming Statistics
Basic Tools Appearing in Winter 1994 Newsletter
This article demonstrates the applications and advantages of resampling, a computationally rich but minimal assumption method for solving statistical problems requiring probabilistic analysis...
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 1994-01
- Keywords:Resampling, Hypothesis Testing, Normal distribution
Applied Poisson Rate Analysis
Mini Paper Appearing in Summer 1989 Newsletter
This paper presents a real-life application of the “Comparison of Poisson Means” hypothesis test...
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 1989-06
- Keywords:Poisson distribution, Hypothesis Testing, Binomial Test, Chi-squared Test, Comparison of Poisson Means
The Alpha-Beta Wars: Which Risk Are You Willing to Live with?
Mini Paper Appearing in Spring 1988 Newsletter
This issue contains the Mini-Paper "The Alpha-Beta Wars: Which Risk Are You Willing to Live with?" by Annabeth Propst...
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 1988-03
- Keywords:Common cause, Hypothesis testing, PDCA (plan-do-check-act) cycle, Shewhart chart, Special cause, Type 1 error, Type 2 error