It starts with: "what?", it goes to: "is that really a problem?", and it ends with: "how interesting!". These are the three stages that most fellow researchers are going through when I talk about one of the most...
Taking statistics classes can be bewildering. It is not like most other branches of mathematics. So bewildering it can be, that some people ask why they cannot just get the recipe for a number of situations and only...
Symptoms are often at their worst when patients visit their doctor, and also get better without intervening. This can happen thanks to a phenomenon we call regression to the mean. A doctor appreciates that if they say...
When estimating the relationship between two variables we want this estimate to be as close to the true relationship as possible, right? Wrong. Often an estimate that is wrong is better than one that is right.