statistical

Can someone point me at a website that has a good explanation, in layman's terms, of why statistical significance is important in an experiment. I'd like to read up a bit on what makes a scientific result statistically significant, and what expressions of error mean (the term escapes me right...

Sorry, I'm a Brit so that's soccer to most of you! I'm interested in deriving a prediction equation for the number of goals scored in a match based on the two teams' average scoring and conceding rates. Using the match results of the whole of last year's Premiership season I am going to find...

Medical research relies heavily on statistical results to substantiate its findings. Yet, stat results are almost always misunderstood and misinterpreted. It's really scandalous. This research, like any science, seeks to make statements about general states of affairs, associations, effects...

I'm not a whiz at statistics, so my understanding of the meaning of standard deviation and "one-sigma confidence limits" is pretty poor. Can any math whiz explain to me in simple language what Steve McIntyre is trying to express in these two posts: MBH Confidence intervals and MBH Confidence...

For those of you who like statistics, it may be interesting to view the following. Resp: is the number of those (in today's short list) who posted to a topic. View is those who looked at it. Seems that typically not much more that 10% feel inclined to comment (which is probably not bad), unless...

I came across this great book Statistical Rules of Thumb by van Belle. He posts some monthly rules of thumb on his website I thought others would find useful. http://www.seattlecrc.org/vbelle/monthlyrule.htm

http://www.samkass.com/theories/timetravel.html ;)

I need a little help from the more statistically inclined of you. There are 144 boxes. There are seven persons. Each person can put one ball in each box, if he wants to. Each persons can use from 0-144 balls, as he wants to. In the end, each box can have from 0 to 7 balls in it. On...