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Textbook: Writing for Statistics and Data Science

If you are looking for my textbook Writing for Statistics and Data Science here it is for free in the Open Educational Resource Commons. Wri...

Saturday 29 December 2018

Degrees of Freedom, Explained


You can interpret degrees of freedom, or DF as the number of (new) pieces of information that go into a statistic. Using examples from this video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rATNoxKg1yA , James Gilbert, “What are degrees of freedom”]

I personally prefer to think of DF as a kind of statistical currency. You earn it by taking independent sample units, and you spend it on estimating population parameters or on information required to get compute test statistics.

In this article, degrees of freedom are explained through these lenses through some common hypothesis tests, with some selected topics like saturation, fractional DF, and mixed effect models at the end.

Saturday 15 December 2018

We read this: "Your bones".

This is review of the book  “Your Bones”, a medical book aimed at the general public by Lara Pizzorno and with Jonathan V. Wright. The review was co-authored with Gabriela Cardillo; she provided the body, medical expertise, and main content and I edited and added the criticisms and asides at the end.