Chapter 1
What is statistics?
Main statistical notions and principles
Article outline
- 1.1Statistics and statistics
- 1.2How to formulate and test your hypotheses
- 1.2.1Null and alternative hypotheses
- 1.2.2Those mysterious p-values…
- 1.2.3Type I and Type II errors
- 1.2.4One-tailed and two-tailed statistical tests
- 1.3What statistics cannot do for you
- 1.4Types of variables
- 1.5Summary
-
Notes