Gelman, et al. tell a story from long ago where someone sent them a fax (that’s right, a fax) asking for… Read more
Category: Hypothesis Testing
Parametric Bootstrap of Kolmogorov–Smirnov Test
Zeimbekakis, et al. recently published an article in The American Statistician titled On Misuses of the Kolmogorov–Smirnov Test for One-Sample Goodness-of-Fit…. Read more
Most useful tests for an ANCOVA model
In his book Regression Modeling Strategies, 2nd Ed, Frank Harrell provides a list of what he calls the “most useful… Read more
Profile likelihood ratio confidence intervals
When you fit a generalized linear model (GLM) in R and call confint on the model object, you get confidence… Read more
Testing Composite Hypotheses about Fixed Effects (Ch 4 of ALDA)
I’m still on my ALDA kick here, this time posting about section 4.7 of Chapter 4. In my last post… Read more
Explaining and simulating an F distribution
I remember feeling very uncomfortable with the F distribution when I started learning statistics. It comes up when you’re learning… Read more