David's blog

Err and err and err but less and less and less

David's blog

Err and err and err but less and less and less

Month: March 2014

The only statistical distribution you need to know

If you pick two people at random and measure their heights, what can you say about the average height of the population? When dealing with small sample sizes (less than, say, 20) it’s generally not possible to assume that the sample variance is a good approximation of the population variance. There simply isn’t enough data, […]

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