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Data Correlation and the Simpson Paradox

Posted on March 25, 2025

Summary Simpson’s paradox is a fascinating statistical phenomenon where the observed relationship between two variables can be reversed when the data is divided into subgroups. For biologists and biochemists, this means that the correlation between …

Posted in bioinformatics, Computing, Scientific Communication, StatisticsTagged penguis, R, Simpson’s Paradox, statistics

Is p-value hacking reverse statistics?

Posted on December 31, 2023

Summary P-value hacking is the process of manipulating or analyzing data in a way that increases the likelihood of obtaining statistically significant results. I used 4 different AI chatbots to obtain an explanation with examples. …

Posted in bioinformatics, Computing, Scientific Communication, StatisticsTagged AI, ChatGPT, p-value, statistics

𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀

Posted on August 23, 2022

Becoming a Data Scientist If you are interested to become a data scientist, the following free resources and books would be very helpful. Free books using R These and other books aan be accessed for …

Posted in bioinformatics, Books, Python, R, StatisticsTagged data science, machine learning, programming, python, R, statistics

w3schools code tutorials

Posted on June 23, 2022

w3schools: Learn to Code On the w3schools site I was surprised to find a lot more than informational tutorial for Web coding such as CSS or PHP.  The site offers a large number of well …

Posted in bioinformatics, Programming, Python, R, SQL, Statistics, UncategorizedTagged data science, Git, learning, machine learning, mySQL, python, R, SQL, statistics, Tutorials, w3schools

How to spot a misleading graph?

Posted on November 22, 2019

As biochemists and biologists, like all scientists we convey results in the form of graphs. We also read papers that present results. More generally graphs are used in many aspects of every day news… The …

Posted in bioinformatics, Programming, StatisticsTagged analysis, bias, graphs, plots, results, statistics

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