Inferential Statistics: Understanding Expert Knowledge and its Implications for Statistics Education

From inferential statistics to climate knowledge

Climate variability and change are risk factors for climate sensitive activities such as agriculture. Managing these risks requires “climate knowledge”, i.e. a sound understanding of causes and consequences of climate variability and knowledge of potential management options that are suitable in light of the climatic risks posed. Often such information about prognostic variables (e.g. yield, ra...

Inferential Statistics for Social and Behavioural Research

This paper provided an insight to the effective use of inferential statistics for social and behavioural research. As a theoretical paper, it explored the importance of tests of significance emphasizing the need to use the appropriate test for a particular research. It showed that a parametric test is one that involves the estimation of the value of at list one population parameter and the fact...

Chapter 14 . Inferential Statistics , Descriptive Statistics and The Analysis Plan

Provided that the data show that a compound is safe, it is the primary efficacy analysis that determines whether the compound is approved. The secondary analyses support, clarify and confirm, but only one prospectively planned efficacy analysis can be primary in support of an effectiveness claim for a given trial. Why should this be so? And how can we design the trial and set up the primary eff...

Effect Size vs Inferential Statistics

philosophical hermeneutics and its implications for self-understanding, otherness- understanding and together – understanding, in education

the purpose of this study was to analyze the philosophical hermeneutics of gadamer، and show its implications for the attainment of self-understanding، otherness- understanding and together – understand in education. to achieve this objective، descriptive research methods and conceptual analysis of the qualitative research approach was used in. this study، the theoretical foundations and philos...