Statistics terms and ideas

Transformation

Turns lists into other lists or variables into other variables.

Standard error

Measure of how far a variable is likely to be from its mean, in repeated experiments

Standard deviation

Set of numbers in the

Residual

Alpha (α)

ANOVA

Analysis of variance

Beta (

The probability of failing to reject the null hypothesis when it is actually false (Type II error rate). Statistical power equals 1 - β.

Central Limit Theorem

Confounding

Conditional Probability

Continuous data

Discrete Data

Dependent variable

Ecological fallacy

Independence

Independent variable

Parameter

Rank

Ratio data

Simpson’s Paradox

Homoscedasticity

Heteroscedasticity

Linear regression

Regression