[HN Gopher] The Statistics Handbook (free culture LaTeX handbook)
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The Statistics Handbook (free culture LaTeX handbook)
Author : carlocck
Score : 92 points
Date : 2023-05-29 08:39 UTC (14 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| shrubble wrote:
| I appreciate this greatly... I am working with people that don't
| understand even the basics (such as a survey with 49 responses
| means that the margin of error is over 10% and thus comparing 1
| month's results of say '68 per cent' with next month's '75' is
| meaningless); hope that this will help me better explain what
| they are missing.
| sokoloff wrote:
| My favorite is when a survey result is presented with "as many
| digits as my calculator showed", often allowing me to derive
| how many responses were likely received.
| 2b3a51 wrote:
| Your example includes just about every manager I have ever
| worked with in a 35 year teaching career.
|
| National exam pass rate of 67% does not imply that every class
| of 20 will have 14 or 15 passes!
|
| I really appreciate the author providing access to the LaTeX
| source as well.
| sillymath3 wrote:
| > I am working with people that don't understand even the
| basics (such as a survey with 49 responses means that the
| margin of error is over 10%
|
| I don't understand this, if the population if just 49 people
| then the margin of error is zero. So intuitively the bigger the
| population the bigger the bound for the margin of error.
| sillymath3 wrote:
| In 10.4 A/B testing is just a list with several points and there
| is not warning about having a deep understanding. For example,
| the point of selecting a sample is not easy, if you take a sample
| of something on 1 july of 2020, you have to consider if the
| weather, the day of week, people on vacation or anyone of
| thousands of factor is going to make your sample not adequate to
| generalize the result to other circumstances. Using statistics
| correctly requires neutralizing many sources of errors. It is not
| easy to get a good representative sample.
| carlocck wrote:
| Wrote this 30-page essay that aims to explore an approach to
| statistics for the layman - from simple average to stochastic
| gradient descent. Open source, free culture code - happy sharing.
| brudgers wrote:
| For a potential reader like me, linking to a PDF would be
| better because a Github repository is not how I typically
| engage with texts.
| elteto wrote:
| The PDF is _right there_.
| brudgers wrote:
| On my screens, the readme is what I see (and on my iPhone,
| that's pretty much all I see). It talks about licensing,
| not statistics.
|
| As a reader I clicked on the link to read about statistics,
| not licensing.
| azalemeth wrote:
| Or, for the even-lazier user, right here: https://raw.githu
| busercontent.com/carloocchiena/the_statisti...
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| (Great project. I lecture stats to biochemists and getting
| them interested is half the battle; convincing them why
| it's worth learning what the computer does the other half)
| brudgers wrote:
| I took the time to provide feedback with the intent of
| helping the author present their work in a way that will
| engage with more people.
|
| Most people never use GitHub.
| mihaic wrote:
| I missed it as well. It's a bit confusing how the Github
| interface doesn't show the extension easily when the file
| name is too long.
| Pinegulf wrote:
| Worth the price. Keep em coming.
| clircle wrote:
| > worth the price
|
| ...
| rvbissell wrote:
| There are many things in the human experience that aren't
| worth a price of zero. For these, you must pay someone to
| take them off your hands.
| mdp2021 wrote:
| Interpreting the expression <<Worth the price>> from Pinegulf
| is not immediate.
|
| Surely, as rvbissell wrote nearby, there are contributions
| around of negative value - though maybe rarely in technical
| publications of this kind.
|
| If you want to donate to Carlo Occhiena, information does not
| seem immediately available, but his personal website -
| carloocchiena.com - contains his E-Mail address at the bottom
| of the JS generated typing, linked at <<mi puoi scrivere una
| mail>>.
| clircle wrote:
| So many intro to statistics books... what's there left to say?
| [deleted]
| 2b3a51 wrote:
| So many people without understanding. Perhaps we need a tonne
| of different approaches?
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