Statistical rules of thumb Gerald van Belle
Publisher: Wiley

I won't argue the specific merits of the Berkeley study with you, statistical analysis of sociological studies is not my area of expertise. Version B Source: Statistical Rules of Thumb by Gerald van Belle; http://vanbelle.org/. The marketer does a statistical test of significance and gets a p-value of 0.04 (remember your business stats class here…). With five minutes to speak to the publishers of many of the top science journals, I tried to distill the lessons learned about scientists and social media to a short set of “rules of thumb.” I was not surprised at all when the panel of scientists at the end of the day .. There is a rule of thumb for RE statistics: this says that positive RE numbers have some significance while negative ones do not. Statistical neglect – instead of subjectively assessing small probabilities and continuously updating them, people choose to use rules-of-thumb (if any heuristics), which can introduce systematic biases in their decisions. It turns out my work library has a copy, which has been fun to skim, or should I say, to thumb through. Several responses; I posit that what's going on with this wage spread is two statistical rules of thumb. While reading Bart Yasso's My Life on the Run, I came across his predictor for marathon times, "Yasso 800s." Yasso was in the habit of doing a 10 x 800m track workout; his rest in between each item was a 400m jog. This workshop will use iNZight visualisation tools and other simulation activities to build a conceptual understanding of margin of error, and the “rules of thumb” for testing claims in statistically-based reports. Gerard van Belle's Statistical Rules of Thumb has piqued my curiosity at conferences. Title: Statistical Rules of Thumb Author: Gerald Van Belle. -The first is that while real women may have curves, women's statistical curves are tighter than men's. Jacks: 5 Orange With Blue and Violet Jack. If you've been following this space at Grantland for a while now, you've seen a variety of advanced concepts and statistical rules of thumb pop up with regard to measuring football performance. He noticed that his average 800m Burfoot doesn't seem to have done any statistical analysis, or even any research other than asking a few running buddies about their workouts and marathon times.