{"id":580,"date":"2013-06-12T20:00:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T19:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/?p=580"},"modified":"2013-06-04T20:57:49","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T19:57:49","slug":"statsminiblog-parametric-like-paramedic-or-paralegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2013\/06\/12\/statsminiblog-parametric-like-paramedic-or-paralegal\/","title":{"rendered":"StatsMiniBlog: Parametric? :-\/  Like paramedic or paralegal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/zonalandeducation.com\/mstm\/physics\/mechanics\/kinematics\/EquationsForAcceleratedMotion\/Introductions\/Displacement\/Image78.gif\" width=\"180\" height=\"76\" \/>We have &#8211; in this microseries of miniblogs &#8211; looked at <a title=\"StatsMiniBlog: Continuous vs. Categorical\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2013\/05\/13\/statsminiblog-continuous-vs-categorical\/\">data<\/a> distributions and <a title=\"StatsMiniBlog: Size and variability\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2013\/05\/22\/statsminiblog-size-and-variability\/\">describing <\/a>what we&#8217;ve got. We&#8217;re ready for the big leap now; from description into inference. What can we say about how our data relate to the world at large? And the first thing to do is to clarify a deeply unhelpful term.<\/p>\n<p>Parametric.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It just means statistical tests \u00a0because &#8220;my data is <a title=\"StatsMiniBlog: Order and Normality\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2013\/05\/15\/ministatsblog-order-and-normality\/\">Normal<\/a>&#8220;. (And if you&#8217;ve done a <a title=\"StatsMiniBlog: Transformations\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2013\/05\/29\/statsminiblog-transformations\/\">transformation<\/a> \u00a0to make it Normal, you can use these transformed data with parametric stats.)<\/p>\n<p>Now, can you guess what non-parametric means?<\/p>\n<p>Hurray! It means\u00a0statistical tests for when\u00a0&#8220;my data is non-Normal&#8221;. That might be skewed continuous stuff, or\u00a0categorical data like dead\/alive counts.<\/p>\n<p>Glad we&#8217;ve cleared that up. We&#8217;ll be onto bootstrapped estimates of regression covariates before you can slip a 24G in a neonate &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Archi<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have &#8211; in this microseries of miniblogs &#8211; looked at data distributions and describing what we&#8217;ve got. We&#8217;re ready for the big leap now; from description into inference. What can we say about how our data relate to the world at large? And the first thing to do is to clarify a deeply unhelpful [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2013\/06\/12\/statsminiblog-parametric-like-paramedic-or-paralegal\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,2676],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archimedes","category-stats"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}