The Trick to Statistics is to Restate Everything without the Phantoms

March 23, 2014

(This article was originally published at Entsophy, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.)

Statistics is a such a mess that statisticians can barely utter a sentence without introducing all kinds of imaginary phantoms into the discussion. Novices often think these ghosts serve no purpose but to confuse the hell out of everyone. They might be right. Below is a typical example. The author is unimportant since it’s not […]