Sports equality, t-tests and standard error

Today, taking a break from writing the grant proposal that has no end, I found myself thinking about easy ways to explain and understand standard error. To understand standard error, you have to have some statistic that you’re discussing the standard error of. As a random example, let’s just take the mean. T-TEST PROCEDURE FOR…

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Census in Black & White: What I wondered about lately

The census now allows more than one race to be checked. For many years, friends of mine in inter-racial couples when they registered their children for school would check the “Other” box for race, rather than pick black or white. Although an individual’s census form responses are confidential, you certainly are free to tell anyone…

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Don’t be so quick to discount “lifestyle business”

<- On the lake shore last night It wasn’t until a banker sneeringly said to me, “So, you’re a lifestyle business.” That I realized lifestyle business was not, as I had mistakenly thought, people who called themselves “life coaches” , Mary Kay consultants, personal trainers, financial consultants or other businesses that are telling you what…

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Confirmatory Factor Analysis with AMOS: OMG it’s THIS button

I’ve forgotten more about statistical software than you’ll ever know! I don’t know why people ever say this in a bragging tone because I consider that to be my problem. I’ve forgotten it. Today, I needed to do a confirmatory factor analysis with someone using AMOS. They wanted it in AMOS so that is what…