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Mostly about Statistics

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Different statistical techniques are appropriate depending on whether the variables of interest are discrete or continuous. We will first consider the case of discrete variables and present the chi-square test and then we will discuss methods applicable to continuous variables.

“A statistician is someone who, with his head in an oven and his feet in a bucket of ice water, when asked how he feels, responds: On the average, I feel fine.”

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Wassertheil-Smoller, S. (1990). Mostly about Statistics. In: Biostatistics and Epidemiology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3887-2_3

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