Episode 10 - It's All Counterexamples

Not So Standard Deviations

• Episode: Episode 10 - It's All Counterexamples
• Website: Not So Standard Deviations
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• Duration: 00:57:33
• Published: 2016-02-29 20:10

Hilary and Roger talk about the motivation behind the explainr package and the usefulness of automated reporting and interpretation of statistical tests. They also struggle to come up with a quick and easy way to explain why statistics is useful when it sometimes doesn't produce any different results. Show notes: The explainr package: https://github.com/hilaryparker/explainr Google's CausalImpact package: https://google.github.io/CausalImpact/CausalImpact.html Software is Eating the World: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424053111903480904576512250915629460 Many Rules of Statistics are Wrong: http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2015/12/many-rules-of-statistics-are-wrong.html Jeff Leek is mentioned at 5:31