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The class blog assignment for this week is to explore analysis of variance (ANOVA). I started my research by stepping through the tutorial that was assigned. I did what I have done many times this semester, I opened my SPSS textbook from last semester (Field, 2013). This…

I will be honest and admit I haven’t given multiple regression as much thought as I should have. I am currently growing my statistical knowledge. As a dutiful student, I accepted the idea of linear regression as being the exploration of the relationship between an…

The Infovis of the Beholder

In the publication “Infovis and Statistical Graphics: Different Goals, Different Looks”, Gelman and Unwin (2013) describe the differences in the graphics typically designed and presented as statistical or informational visualizations. They provide excellent descriptions of the differences in the…

The required reading for this week’s blog post were disconcerting for me. I carefully read all about how P values, confidence intervals, and power are calculated and often misinterpreted (Greenland et. al., 2016; Gelman, 2016; Gelman, 2017). This follows the theme we have been reading about in our…