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Statistical hypothesis testing involves two important concepts: general population and sample.
Roman Zykov • Roman's Data Science: How to monetize your data
1. We asked students to test a specific hypothesis with a dataset: Is BMI related to number of steps? Other students were just asked to analyze the dataset.
The students with a specific hypothesis were 3X less likely to see the gorilla in the data! https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-020-02133-w... See more
David Prensky
@daveprensky
Getting sniped again. Did everyone realize that (at least at the population level between 1990 and 2010), % of calories from carbs is a super robust predictor of overweight/obese prevalence? https://t.co/F0PzQ4n1kZ
David McNamara
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Chris Georges
@cgeorges22
The go-to alternative for non-normal data is nonparametric tests.