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Teaching Principles in Type 1 Error and Reproducible Research Using Dice
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Charles G. Minard – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2025
Controlling Type 1 error and encouraging reproducible research are important in clinical and translational research. These concepts are frequently discussed in lectures with mathematical language, analytic examples, and probability distributions that demonstrate the issues. However, first-time learners in biostatistics courses focusing on…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Error Patterns, Probability, Demonstrations (Educational)
The Odds Are It's Wrong: Correcting a Common Mistake in Statistics
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David Voas; Laura Watt – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2025
Binary logistic regression is one of the most widely used statistical tools. The method uses odds, log odds, and odds ratios, which are difficult to understand and interpret. Understanding of logistic regression tends to fall down in one of three ways: (1) Many students and researchers come to believe that an odds ratio translates directly into…
Descriptors: Statistics, Statistics Education, Regression (Statistics), Misconceptions