Tag: matplot()

Example 9.30: addressing multiple comparisons

We’ve been more sensitive to accounting for multiple comparisons recently, in part due to work that Nick and colleagues published on the topic. In this entry, we consider results from a randomized trial (Kypri et al., 2009) to reduce problem drinking …

Example 9.27: Baseball and shrinkage

To celebrate the beginning of the professional baseball season here in the US and Canada, we revisit a famous example of using baseball data to demonstrate statistical properties. In 1977, Bradley Efron and Carl Morris published a paper about the Jame…