Did you ever wonder why 19th century pirates are often represented wearing eye patches? I never did, because I assumed that it was for the obvious reason: they had lost an eye. Pirates, like many ...

If the P value is less than 5%, reject the null hypothesis; if the P value is .05 or more, don't reject the null hypothesis. Statistics textbooks -- and statisticians for that matter -- focus almost ...

The Brookbush Institute continues to enhance education with new courses, a modern glossary, an AI Tutor, and a client program generator. Too often, professionals incorrectly treat a failure to refute ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The P-value is a random variable derived from the distribution of the test statistic used to analyze a data set and to test a null hypothesis.

An excellent post by my colleague John Nielsen-Gammon, the Texas State climatologist, can be found here. An excerpt: … consider a pot of water. Somebody you don’t know claims that they have invented a ...

In the decades since its introduction, the neutral theory of evolution has become central to the study of evolution at the molecular level, in part because it provides a way to make strong predictions ...

Researchers from Northwestern University, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Colorado published a new Journal of Marketing study that proposes abandoning null hypothesis significance ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract 1. Of the many model for species-abundance distributions (SADs), the lognormal has been the most popular and as been put forward as an ...