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Example: Confidence Intervals

Imagine you’re a researcher trying to work out how many burglaries happen in a big city each month. It’s impossible to count every single burglary, so you decide to look …

Hypothesis Testing and P-Values

A Hypothesis Test is a way of testing data collected for research against the status quo. Let’s say you’ve done a research paper, based on a hypothesis. You’ve done your …

Normal Distribution: Where it is used

The normal distribution is like a special pattern that many things in the world follow. It’s super important for understanding data in social sciences. Let’s break it down: 1. Understanding …

Understanding z-scores

Z-scores tell us how many standard deviations a data point is from the mean. A number further away from 0 in either direction indicates a data point further from the …

Understanding the Standard Error

Imagine you want to know the average height of all the students in a school, but you can’t measure everyone. Instead, you take a few samples – like measuring the …

Measures of Association

Measures of association are coefficients used to quantify to what extent variables are related. They are used frequently in fields such as biology and social science and give us a …