• Intuitive statistics, or folk statistics, is the cognitive phenomenon where organisms use data to make generalizations and predictions about the world...
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    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)...
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    (philosophy) Object (philosophy) Process of concept formation Schema (Kant) Intuitive statistics Goguen, Joseph (2005). "What is a Concept?". Conceptual Structures:...
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  • 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....
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    that another event has already occurred Fully probabilistic design Intuitive statistics – cognitive phenomenon where organisms use data to make generalizations...
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    for model comparison Many informal Bayesian inferences are based on "intuitively reasonable" summaries of the posterior. For example, the posterior mean...
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    distribution, making them easier to interpret intuitively.: 47  Mann, Prem S. (1995). Introductory Statistics (2nd ed.). Wiley. ISBN 0-471-31009-3. Christopher...
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  • Classification based on users' tags Frame semantics – Linguistic theory Intuitive statistics – cognitive phenomenon where organisms use data to make generalizations...
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    epidemiology Simpson's paradox – Error in statistical reasoning with groups Intuitive statistics – cognitive phenomenon where organisms use data to make generalizations...
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    blending Duck test False analogy Hypocatastasis I know it when I see it Intuitive statistics Metaphor Parable Sensemaking "Analogy". The Oxford Companion to the...
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    programs from dataPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback Intuitive statistics – cognitive phenomenon where organisms use data to make generalizations...
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  • paradigms: classical statistics (error statistics), Bayesian statistics, likelihood-based statistics, and information-based statistics using the Akaike Information...
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    predicting expert's cognitive experiences forming an intuitive "probability curve." In statistics, prediction is a part of statistical inference. One particular...
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  • Inductive reasoning (category Philosophy of statistics)
    Inductive programming Inductive reasoning aptitude Inductivism Inquiry Intuitive statistics Lateral thinking Laurence Jonathan Cohen Logic Logical reasoning...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • {\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...
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    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...
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  • as a null-hypothesis value), in which case the result is a statistic. Intuitively, if the restricted estimator is near the maximum of the likelihood function...
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  • Robust statistics are statistics that maintain their properties even if the underlying distributional assumptions are incorrect. Robust statistical methods...
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  • Rationality Debate – Question of whether humans are rational or not Intuitive statistics – cognitive phenomenon where organisms use data to make generalizations...
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  • This glossary of statistics and probability is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in the mathematical sciences of statistics and probability...
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  • Consider the following three angles as an example: 10, 20, and 30 degrees. Intuitively, calculating the mean would involve adding these three angles together...
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    Press. [16] Gigerenzer, G., & Murray, D. J. (1987). Cognition as intuitive statistics. Erlbaum. [17] Gigerenzer, G., Reb, J., & Luan, S. (2022). Smart...
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    TED2022 conference in Vancouver, Musk stated that "the social cues were not intuitive ... I would just tend to take things very literally ... but then that...
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  • Likelihood-based statistics focus on optimizing the likelihood function to estimate parameters, but they may not provide intuitive or easily interpretable...
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  • first exceeded WordStar sales. Early word processing software was not as intuitive as word processor devices. Most early word processing software required...
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    random nature of supply of nutrients are invalid. Taleb's scathing counter-intuitive takedown of widely-circulated alt-right talking points about race and...
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  • other ways of showing this equality, from intuitive arguments to mathematically rigorous proofs. The intuitive arguments are generally based on properties...
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    is fundamental to be able to consider expected values of ±∞. This is intuitive, for example, in the case of the St. Petersburg paradox, in which one...
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