Intuitive statistics, or folk statistics, is the cognitive phenomenon where organisms use data to make generalizations and predictions about the world...

either a decision from a significance test or a confidence interval. Intuitive statistics German tank problem Cox (2006), pp. 1–2. Cox (2006), pp. 24, 47....

caused by random variation in the sample—may or may not agree with an intuitive sense of its significance. The set of basic statistical skills (and skepticism)...

(philosophy) Object (philosophy) Process of concept formation Schema (Kant) Intuitive statistics Goguen, Joseph (2005). "What is a Concept?". Conceptual Structures:...

that another event has already occurred Fully probabilistic design Intuitive statistics – cognitive phenomenon where organisms use data to make generalizations...

blending Duck test False analogy Hypocatastasis I know it when I see it Intuitive statistics Metaphor Parable Sensemaking "Analogy". The Oxford Companion to the...

epidemiology Simpson's paradox – Error in statistical reasoning with groups Intuitive statistics – cognitive phenomenon where organisms use data to make generalizations...

of people with lower incomes. While the median and mode are often more intuitive measures for such skewed data, many skewed distributions are in fact best...

distribution, making them easier to interpret intuitively.: 47  Mann, Prem S. (1995). Introductory Statistics (2nd ed.). Wiley. ISBN 0-471-31009-3. Christopher...

for model comparison Many informal Bayesian inferences are based on "intuitively reasonable" summaries of the posterior. For example, the posterior mean...

programs from dataPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback Intuitive statistics – cognitive phenomenon where organisms use data to make generalizations...

ideal Semantic feature-comparison model Similarity (philosophy) Intuitive statistics Coșeriu (2000) Croft and Cruse (2004) Cognitive Linguistics ch.4...

paradigms: classical statistics (error statistics), Bayesian statistics, likelihood-based statistics, and information-based statistics using the Akaike Information...

Inductive programming Inductive reasoning aptitude Inductivism Inquiry Intuitive statistics Lateral thinking Laurence Jonathan Cohen Logic Logical reasoning...

Rationality Debate – Question of whether humans are rational or not Intuitive statistics – cognitive phenomenon where organisms use data to make generalizations...

Consider the following three angles as an example: 10, 20, and 30 degrees. Intuitively, calculating the mean would involve adding these three angles together...

width. The second procedure does not have this property. The two counter-intuitive properties of the first procedure – 100% coverage when X 1 , X 2 {\displaystyle...

This glossary of statistics and probability is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in the mathematical sciences of statistics and probability...

Robust statistics are statistics that maintain their properties even if the underlying distributional assumptions are incorrect. Robust statistical methods...

{\displaystyle {52 \choose 4}\times 48=12,994,800} Another, and perhaps more intuitive way of looking at it, is to say that there are 52 choose 5 different 5-card...

Psychological Review, 114(2), 245–272. Xu, F. & Garcia, V. (2008). Intuitive statistics by 8-month-old infants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...

In statistics, the score (or informant) is the gradient of the log-likelihood function with respect to the parameter vector. Evaluated at a particular...

Press. [16] Gigerenzer, G., & Murray, D. J. (1987). Cognition as intuitive statistics. Erlbaum. [17] Gigerenzer, G., Reb, J., & Luan, S. (2022). Smart...

doesn't have an intuitive interpretation. Therefore it is difficult to communicate to non-statistician colleagues. Since PPOS has an intuitive interpretation...

deviations in either direction are equidistant from the origin, facilitating intuitive interpretation. The plot inherently highlights two critical regions of...

independent of each other. Although the derived expressions may seem more intuitive, they are not the preferred definition, as the conditional probabilities...

other ways of showing this equality, from intuitive arguments to mathematically rigorous proofs. The intuitive arguments are generally based on properties...

In medicine and statistics, sensitivity and specificity mathematically describe the accuracy of a test that reports the presence or absence of a medical...

In statistics, imputation is the process of replacing missing data with substituted values. When substituting for a data point, it is known as "unit imputation";...

a type of dimensionality reduction that is particularly efficient in statistics, machine learning and algorithms. It was invented by Moses Charikar, Kevin...