Tag: Hypothesis Testing

Frequentist or Baysian

A latest updated post on Freakonomics, Beware the Weasel Word “Statistical” in Statistical Significance!,  seemed to attempt to challenge frequentist statistics by Bayesian. I have no research on Bayesian and won’t jump to the debates. I’d rather to use this case to apply the Dragon’s Teeth and Fleas logic of hypothesis testing (at least I […]

Statistical Notes (4): Dragon’s Teeth and Fleas: Hypothesis Testing in Plain English

Statisticians aren’t the problem for data science. The real problem is too many posers — Cathy O’Neil you actually do need to understand how to invert a matrix at some point in your life if you want to be a data scientist. — Cathy O’Neil I was asked in several different occasions to explain hypothesis […]