In this video I explain the logic of null hypothesis significance testing and how researchers use a null hypothesis and a comparison distribution or sampling distribution in order to assess the probability of a particular test statistic or calculation. Video … Read More
What is Kurtosis?
In this video I explain the concept of kurtosis. I explain the terminology for kurtosis coined by Karl Pearson, a number of common misconceptions related to kurtosis, how kurtosis is calculated for a sample, and how kurtosis is interpreted for … Read More
Understanding Central Tendency
In this video I explain the strengths and limitations of the 3 measures of central tendency: the mean, the median, and the mode. This is part of a key theme of statistics, which is the importance of the choices researchers … Read More