Statistics

Simpson’s Paradox

Trends which appear in groups of data may disappear or reverse when the groups are combined.

Key Concepts

Hypothesis testing

Population sampling

Variables, dependent, independent, control

quantitative, discrete, continuous

categorical, binary, ordinal, nominal

confounding, latent, composite

Descriptive statistics, distribution, central tendency, variability

Confidence interval

Statistical significance, p-value

Inferential statistics

Central Limit Theorem

Frequentist vs Bayesian statistics