5 Flashcards
Statistical significance is not equal to?
Biologically important
Does the p value tell you the size of an effect?
No
Does correlation imply causation?
No
Confounding variable?
An unmeasured variable that may influence both X and Y.
In experiments , the values of one variable randomly assigned by?
The researcher
If you have h outcomes of the same probability, within a probability tree, what is the total probability of the desired outcome?
h(probability of a single outcome)
Binomial distribution?
Describes the probability of various numbers of successes from a fixed number of independent trials.
Larger sample has higher/lower standard error?
Lower
What happens if the confidence interval of the mean from (x, x+y) samples do overlap the overall mean of all samples?
You can be certain that you can not reject the null hypothesis.