Having data is only half the battle. How do you know your data actually means something? With some simple Python code, you can quickly check if differences in data are actually significant. In ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

This claim about statistics is nonsense. After all, statistical tests are merely a tool. Just as a gun can neither secure dinner in the woods nor injure a person in a bank until someone pulls the ...

Non-parametric statistical tests are commonly used in the behavioral sciences. Researchers need to be aware that non-parametric methods involving ranks can perform unreliably as a result of very small ...

We conducted simulations that estimated power and Type I error rates of statistical tests for detecting trends in raptor population count data collected from a single ...