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guessmyname · 2016-09-22 12:53:48+00:00

Off Topic — Which one is better?

    $ stat `which stat`
    $ stat $(which stat)

perfunctory | karma 7956 | avg karma 4.74 · | 2019-08-14 21:09:17+00:00

So what in your view would be a better statistic?

goldbrick | karma 271 | avg karma 1.3 · | 2016-04-11 13:46:32

It's a mistake to compare the two -- statistics 101.

mombul | karma 42 | avg karma 0.89 · | 2018-07-23 05:48:47+00:00

Or stats?

bluGill | karma 18458 | avg karma 1.43 · | 2019-06-26 11:37:44

Statistics can tell the difference.

array-species | karma 64 | avg karma 3.56 · | 2023-08-22 01:06:25

statistics are based.

zinekeller | karma 6199 | avg karma 3.47 · | 2021-08-07 14:05:55

I mean, both are correct though (this is an inherent problem between statistics and (natural) languages - both are correct depending on context).

ploika | karma 570 | avg karma 2.65 · | 2017-12-07 16:07:27+00:00

I did start my post with the words "in my opinion". I am not right or wrong about anything, and neither are you. We're mostly talking about syntax preferences here.

I'm separating out traditional statistics as an alias for statistical inference - make distributional assumptions, test them, estimate the effect of X on y and put a 95% confidence interval around it. That sort of stuff.

It's the stuff that absolutely does not matter if you're assessing the overall effectiveness of a classifier, and certainly isn't needed in a lot of data analysis tasks where all you need are variations of counts and percentages.

For the record, my academic background is maths and statistics. I've picked up any software development experience on the job.

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joeyo | karma 1576 | avg karma 2.35 · | 2010-01-09 05:10:10+00:00

Many epidemiologists seem to prefer Stata.

That seems to be a west coast thing. East coast epidemiologists that I know use some mix of S or SPSS or SAS.

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optimalsolver | karma 9286 | avg karma 4.17 · | 2022-10-09 15:29:34

Statsis?

hansvm | karma 2835 | avg karma 1.65 · | 2020-12-06 15:00:25

Some stats are better and some aren't, but are you really saying that the reason some stats are better is _because_ they didn't do anything?

lamontcg | karma 11994 | avg karma 2.68 · | 2022-04-21 18:25:14

I'm not a practicing statistician, so I'm uncertain how to weigh the two arguments here.

jcromartie | karma 6154 | avg karma 3.46 · | 2011-11-15 10:15:38

$stats should be $minmax

Retric | karma 55819 | avg karma 2.05 · | 2023-01-19 14:33:44

Gave a statistic isn’t the same as linking to a statistic.

Also, statistics include facts like more than average not just specific numerical values.

PS: Though I have also linked to the numeric value before just not in this comment chain.

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paulddraper | karma 16686 | avg karma 1.72 · | 2023-09-14 14:58:31

Neither. Reference should have followed the word pseudostatistics

BurningFrog | karma 23526 | avg karma 2.88 · | 2016-10-19 21:26:14+00:00

The latter is the only one that's of practical interest.

"Known"is a bit strong, since the source for the statistics can be debated.

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zcarter | karma 71 | avg karma 1.92 · | 2013-12-11 18:45:15

Step one (always): Look at your data.

Only then should you choose the statistic(s) you 'care' about.

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SamReidHughes | karma 5112 | avg karma 1.14 · | 2018-12-11 13:45:02

You use statistics.

melenaboija | karma 2489 | avg karma 2.94 · | 2021-08-14 07:38:49

Stats is stats and one of the advantages of it is that they won't change based on the times they are shown or opinions, neither your or mine.

If you don't want to

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XorNot | karma 14149 | avg karma 2.13 · | 2021-03-12 01:51:35

Which statistics?